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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. - Tom Bissell Quotes
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. - Martin Amis Quotes
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and its reflected in his writings. - Alex Cox Quotes
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. - Joyce Maynard Quotes
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. - Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. - Robert Frost Quotes
Some critics will write Maya Angelou is a natural writer - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. - Maya Angelou Quotes
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that theyre not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - thats what keeps me going when Im writing a story. - Ann Beattie Quotes
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. - Karl Kraus Quotes
Every writer is a writer of the generation before. - Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when hes written it. - William Golding Quotes
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. - Gavin Degraw Quotes
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. - Nora Roberts Quotes
Six months ago, I was just a writer for Esquire, typing up in my little garret on the far north side of Chicago, and no one had any idea who I was. - Ted Allen Quotes
Today its almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldnt hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right. - Ida Lupino Quotes
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. - Flannery Oconnor Quotes
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost Quotes
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton Quotes
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now hes not spoken of enough. - Anne Rice Quotes
Usually a writer has a particular point of view in a film, and you find that all the characters come in and out of this one tone and rhythm. - Kelly Lynch Quotes
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place hes writing about. I think, you just cant move them about, you know. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. - Buchi Emecheta Quotes
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. - Karl Marx Quotes
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill Quotes
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. - Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. - Joe Eszterhas Quotes
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. - Talcott Parsons Quotes
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. - Clifford Geertz Quotes
The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack. - Russell Banks Quotes
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