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" Quotes and Sayings About a writer

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Concentration Fun Helps Me
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Action Actor Aspect Chance
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Bum Either Going Writer
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Honor Live Sense Writer
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Around Citizen Compromises Everybody
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Achieved Expect Popularity Writer
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

About Europe He Improve
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Writer Organism Writing Heart
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Amount Certain Need Nerve
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
First First Job Honest Job
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Am Boy Call Grown
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Being ILove Love Paperwork
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

About Different Many Much
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

Also Beautiful Being Instinct
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No

Artist Being Grammys Hip
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Became Environments Spite Writer
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

I got Check today Writer Siting
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
Become Writer Person Absolute
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

All-Around Around Get He
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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Became Because Child Everyone
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Am Children Composer Daughter
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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
Afraid Fail Know Possible
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Always Because Could Perform
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Effective First First Person How
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As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

Cheese David Fellow Hamburger
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