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Writer Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start…
- It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and…
- As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is…
- The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering…
- Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
- I have always been a dark writer.
- One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
- I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers,…
- I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and…
- The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined…
- With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy…
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- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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