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I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me. Athol Fugard
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George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. Atul Gawande
Writing Moral Insight Writer Combination George His George Orwell Pinnacle Literary Orwell
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. Augusten Burroughs
You Yourself Luxury Giving Giving Up Discouraged Plow Must Absolutely Writer Allow Up Being Either Agents Forward Publishers Rejected
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. Augusten Burroughs
Be True Before Definitely Memoir Writer True Read Reader Want Really
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many. Avi
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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. Avi
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. Avi
You Yourself Writing Become Think Thinking About Writer Readers Stop Your Teachers Start
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not. Ayad Akhtar
Denial About Someone Something Writer Also Trying Personal Personal Level Realise Avoiding Who Level Early Started
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' Ayelet Waldman
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too. Barbara Delinsky
Own Sense Setting Too Books Characters Variety Writer Readers Different Themes Each Last Need
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. Barbara Kingsolver
You Courage Political Topics Dread Some About Write Writer Takes Labeled Politically Controversial Fiction
I'm not someone who from a young age imagined myself being a writer or had dreams of being a novelist or anything like that, but I was always very driven by ideas and by values, and that is the reason I got into journalism. Bari Weiss
Dreams Myself Age Values Young Someone Writer Driven Had Journalism Like Ideas Always Got Very Young Age Being Anything Reason Who Novelist Imagined
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. Barry Levinson
Beginning Down Television Television Show Write Writer Never Became Began Wanted Really Show Actor Eventually Things
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. Barry Levinson
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet. Barry Lopez
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If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task. Barun Sobti
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music. Bat for Lashes
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer. Beau Willimon
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I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal. Beau Willimon
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It's funny, the moments that shape you as a writer. Becky Albertalli
Funny You Writer Shape Moments
My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer. Bel Powley
Director Casting Writer Dad Actor Mum
I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. Bella Freud
Internet Important Research Tool More Writer Felt Always Than Artist
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. Ben Affleck
Photographer Writer Amateur Actor
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. Ben Elton
Me Comedy Will Writer Instinct Always Am Been Just Central
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
Best Writing About Absolutely Writer Absolutely Not Reader Us
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie. Benicio Del Toro
Saying Time Long Long Time Think Could Write Writer Been Movie Script Movies
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