2371 Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms. David Shields

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I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational. David Small

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When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance. David Suchet

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I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. David Walliams

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It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. David Wroblewski

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I think Labrinth is an amazing writer and an amazing singer. His voice is just so magnetic. There are so many people that I would work with inside and outside of pop. Daya

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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off. Daya

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I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. DeRay Mckesson

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The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually. Dean Bakopoulos

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A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has. Dean Bakopoulos

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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. Dean Koontz

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I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power. Deb Caletti

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To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. Deb Caletti

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First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling. Debbie Macomber

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I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. Deborah Eisenberg

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I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside. Deborah Ellis

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The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing. Deborah Moggach

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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. Dee Dee Myers

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. Dee Rees

Amazing Voices Writer Around Material Been Different Many Lives

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write. Dee Rees

A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go. Dennis Edwards

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I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer. Dennis Hopper

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