Writers Write Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of…
— Anne Rice
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Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
— Sigmund Freud
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I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.
— Mandy Patinkin
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I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what…
— Julia Stiles
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I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons:…
— Patricia MacLachlan
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Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it…
— Gloria Steinem
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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I…
— Ha Jin
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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
— Rudy Rucker
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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write.…
— A.L. Kennedy
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It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake…
— Ariel Gore
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Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.
— Jack Bickham
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years,…
— W. P. Kinsella
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
— Cynthia Ozick
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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and…
— Elie Wiesel
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
— Mo Yan
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Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.
— P. C. Cast
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay…
— Cynthia Ozick
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
— Ernest Gaines
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Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
— Nick Denton
Who Wrote These Writers Write Quotes
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