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Writers Quotes by Joan Didion
- People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers…
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- Writers are only rarely likable.
- We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed…
- Writers are always selling somebody out.
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
- That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
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- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu
- Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. — Walter Bagehot
- How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams