Writer Needs Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
— Gore Vidal
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
— Mary Karr
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the…
— Dana Spiotta
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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is…
— Walter Kirn
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
— Vince Flynn
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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
— William Trevor
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't…
— Manuel Puig
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you…
— Octavia Butler
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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
— Orson Welles
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the…
— William Faulkner
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A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.†“That’s only three.†Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do…
— Jess Walter
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A writer needs a life of introspection.
— Tom Robbins
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Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs…
— Lisa Unger
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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
— Philip Roth
Who Wrote These Writer Needs Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Writer Needs Quotes as follows: