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Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Mickey Spillane
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Mickey Spillane
American
Author
Born:
Mar 9
,
1918
Died:
Jul 17
,
2006
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I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
Gloria Steinem
Life
Out
Write
Writer
Writers
Part
Talk
Because
Want
Started
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
New Beginning
Book
Sometimes
Try
Will
Beginning
Luck
Others
Tried
Tries
Something
Writer
Attainment
Never
He
True
Failed
New
Beyond
Always
Been
Done
Where
Again
Succeed
Then
Should
Each
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
Money
Live
Earn
Must
Able
Purpose
Write
Writer
He
Making
Making Money
Order
Means
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
Bradley Whitford
You
Will
Whatever
More
Write
Writer
Make
Sure
Than
Sustain
Want
Act
Actor
The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.
Tom Reiss
Art
Time
Me
You
Justice
Fight
Remember
Pain
Everyone
Way
Kind
Inside
Detective
Some
Writer
Drives
Powerful
Know
Make
Another
Demons
Motivate
Forget
Same
Same Time
Conflicting
Urge
Your
Painter
Things
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
Loneliness
Tries
Writer
Inexplicable
Explain
Utter
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
Soul
Engineer
Writer
Human
Human Soul
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf
Life
Soul
Quality
Experience
Mind
Every
Secret
Writer
Written
His
Large
Works
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
Art
Perception
Our
See
Magic
Shakes
Scene
Writer
New
Renew
Cease
Up
Familiar
Meaning
Function
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Dylan Thomas
Life
Love
Words
Real Life
Nothing
Live
Increased
Else
Must
More
More And More
Fact
Writer
Knew
Until
Read
Always
Real
Verse
Any
In Fact
Them
Means
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