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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
We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
Jim Lovell
Christmas
Hope
Time
People
Better
Job
Moon
King
First
Country
Year
Side
Saw
Civil
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Better Job
Unrest
Writer
Had
Robert
Robert Kennedy
Around
First Time
Got
End
Done
Script
Poor
To The Moon
Far
Vietnam
Eve
Kennedy
Raising
Christmas Eve
Luther
During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
Kate Klise
Work
Time
Best
Gift
Sometimes
Space
Holiday Season
Think
Would
Easy
Given
More
Writer
Simply
Time And Space
Than
Forget
Being
Anything
Holiday
Season
Appreciate
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
Hunter S. Thompson
Work
Character
Director
Own
Action
Must
Somehow
Scene
Writer
Writes
Main
Main Character
Participant
Like
Protagonist
Himself
Does
Least
Camera
His
Scripts
Who
Film
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
Hunter S. Thompson
People
Law
Made
Somebody
Gauge
Else
Worst
Recognized
Outlaw
Allies
Writer
Outside
Never
Term
Were
Heard
Up
Trying
Just
Who
Miller
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
Time
You
Slightly
Somehow
Writer
Feel
How
Get
Marginal
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Orson Welles
Good
Me
You
Director
Gentleman
Few
Magician
Onstage
Writer
Name
Am
Welles
Ladies
Producer
Radio
Many
Appear
Evening
Actor
Why
Orson Welles
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. Milne
Work
Money
Something
More
Writer
He
Permanence
His
Than
Wants
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
Say
Unable
Writer
Role
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Writer
Written
Protect
Reader
Inform
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
Character
People
Writing
Living
Caricature
Characters
Writer
Create
Should
Novel
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
World
Illusion
Important
Believe
Must
Writer
He
True
Most
Most Important Thing
Knows
Important Thing
Doing
The Most Important
Hold
Even
Thing
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory
People
Opportunities
Filter
Our
Our Lives
Tell
Foggy
See
Rather
More
Through
Obscure
Writer
Self-Deception
Because
End
Than
Happened
In The End
Which
Interested
Themselves
Lives
Actually
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
Lawrence Kasdan
Life
Rest
Homework
Every
Having
Writer
Like
Being
Your
Every Night
Night
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
Lee Gutkind
Creative
Journalist
Approaches
Liberating
Writer
Writers
He
He Or She
True
Ideas
She
Genre
Non-Fiction
Because
True Story
Get
Essayist
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Fiction Writers
Story
Whether
Use
Techniques
Chance
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Life
Art
You
Yourself
Revenge
Result
Achieve
Problems
Totalitarianism
Hell
Society
Way
Relief
Write
Writer
Attempt
Catastrophe
Bound
Saints
Persecution
Any
Repression
Want
Achieves
Which
Social
Utopia
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
People
Human Being
Skin
Living
Every
Other
Relate
Hundreds
Characters
Ability
Give
Writer
Talent
Names
Identities
Him
His
Human
Being
Personalities
Them
Separate
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