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" Quotes and Sayings About a writer

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Write Lot Above Thing
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Writer Someone Spends Years
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Be Real Character Find Heart
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Above Around Aware Lot
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Always Desk Discipline Get
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Am Books I Am Learn
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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If you wish to be a writer, write.

Wish Write Writer You
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

Anyone Brutal Business Chase
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Fact Writer Experience Root
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid
Writer Teach Basest Afraid
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The

Writer Mother Hesitate Grecian Urn
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

Always Autobiography Biography Even
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Became Behold Editor Feminine
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead Generate He Hostility
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

As Far As Becoming Concerned Entire
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Asleep Awake Dream Intentionally
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Any Principle Support War
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