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I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together. Ann Aguirre
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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're 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 - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. Ann Beattie
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I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel. Ann Hood
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I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one. Ann Hood
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Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. Ann Leckie
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One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work. Ann Leckie
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Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer. Ann Packer
Me Made Reading Believe Everything Writer Read
I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over words alone. I'd rather share my pain with people. Anna Todd
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Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns. Annalee Newitz
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Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous. Annaleigh Ashford
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I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel. Anne-Marie Duff
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In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. Anne-Marie Duff
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. Anne Enright
Happy Insofar Writer Since Became Been Very Anybody Full-Time
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts. Anne Enright
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. Anne Lamott
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. Anne M. Mulcahy
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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. Anne McCaffrey
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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. Anne McCaffrey
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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. Anne Rice
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. Anne Rice
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. Anne Stevenson
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. Annie Dillard
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The writer studies literature, not the world. Annie Dillard
World Writer Studies Literature
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. Annie Dillard
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When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel. Anthony Burgess
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