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Writer Quotes

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all Picture Quote #1

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She’s a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites Picture Quote #1

I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully Picture Quote #1

When you’re a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them Picture Quote #1

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly Picture Quote #1

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I’ve fed into my fiction Picture Quote #1

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I’m sure there’s an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer Picture Quote #1

I don’t know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling Picture Quote #1

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody Picture Quote #1

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I’m amazed by how many people don’t bother to do that Picture Quote #1

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they’re an escape Picture Quote #1

That’s the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers Picture Quote #1

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I’ve known Shawn for several years. And he’s just an amazing talent. He’s a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle Picture Quote #1

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway Picture Quote #1

Most of my writer friends are women, and they’re all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There’s much to be said. We’re on it, chief Picture Quote #1

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life’s ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be Picture Quote #1

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one Picture Quote #1

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning Picture Quote #1

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The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless Picture Quote #1

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women Picture Quote #1

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel Picture Quote #1

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that’s just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort Picture Quote #1

I’m an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters Picture Quote #1

The writer Richard Manning has argued that ‘the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command Picture Quote #1

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I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro Picture Quote #1

If you just sit there, and you’re a writer, you’re bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals Picture Quote #1

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist Picture Quote #1

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term ‘magical realism.’ It’s a wonderful term that’s just been used so much, we don’t know what it means anymore Picture Quote #1

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn’t pick the story; the story has picked me. I’ve written absolutely no fiction before ‘The Immortals of Meluha.’ Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing Picture Quote #1

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I’m in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives Picture Quote #1

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. (Writer Quotes) Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She’s a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites. (Writer Quotes) I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully. (Writer Quotes) When you’re a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them. (Writer Quotes) As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly. (Writer Quotes) Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I’ve fed into my fiction. (Writer Quotes) I’m sure there’s an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. (Writer Quotes) I don’t know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. (Writer Quotes) I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody. (Writer Quotes) If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I’m amazed by how many people don’t bother to do that. (Writer Quotes) As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they’re an escape. (Writer Quotes) That’s the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers. (Writer Quotes) I’ve known Shawn for several years. And he’s just an amazing talent. He’s a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. (Writer Quotes) You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. (Writer Quotes) Most of my writer friends are women, and they’re all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There’s much to be said. We’re on it, chief. (Writer Quotes) I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life’s ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be. (Writer Quotes) I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. (Writer Quotes) American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning (Writer Quotes) The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless. (Writer Quotes) Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women. (Writer Quotes) My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. (Writer Quotes) I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that’s just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort. (Writer Quotes) I’m an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters. (Writer Quotes) The writer Richard Manning has argued that ‘the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. (Writer Quotes) I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro. (Writer Quotes) If you just sit there, and you’re a writer, you’re bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals. (Writer Quotes) One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. (Writer Quotes) I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term ‘magical realism.’ It’s a wonderful term that’s just been used so much, we don’t know what it means anymore. (Writer Quotes) I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn’t pick the story; the story has picked me. I’ve written absolutely no fiction before ‘The Immortals of Meluha.’ Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing. (Writer Quotes) First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I’m in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives. (Writer Quotes)

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