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Writer Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish…
- I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a…
- As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
- I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
- It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
- It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner…
- A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science…
- I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was…
- I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a…
- My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer.…
- So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and…
- When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you…
- Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and…
- To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.
- Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.
- I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on…
- I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
- And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and…
- For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
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