Writer You Quotes
95 quotes by 87 authors
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work;…
— Alan Alda
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
— David Brin
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be…
— David Brin
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If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.
— Jeremy Larner
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
— Aimee Bender
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work…
— Alain de Botton
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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
— Horton Foote
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They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe…
— Cynthia Rylant
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You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.
— Dorianne Laux
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but…
— Ralph Ellison
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To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will…
— Jean Craighead George
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To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
— Ayn Rand
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you…
— Iain Banks
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same…
— Lorrie Moore
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You…
— Walter Mosley
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I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept…
— Jim Steranko
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If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The…
— Donald Harington
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to…
— Nicholas Meyer
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as…
— Elizabeth Berg
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When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden…
— Zach Braff
Who Wrote These Writer You Quotes
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