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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn. Irwin Winkler
Good You Nice Tell Writer Yarn Trying Just Want Story Whether Producer
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Me Liar Writer Call Boy Am Up Little Grown Now Grown-Up
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Good Teller Writer Scholar Good Writer Redeemer Story Mankind Basically
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. Isabel Allende
Myself Experience Living Find Fact Writer Venezuela Am Years Years And Years Being Where Place Cut Roots Away
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. Isabel Allende
Great Angry You People Try Think Books Say Fact Writer Readership Insult Lot Sell Get Little Such A Thing Serious Thing
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced. Isabel Allende
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Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family. Isabel Allende
Family Writer Unfortunately
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. Ismail Kadare
Natural Enemy Dictatorship Writer Authentic Literature Incompatible
I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime. Ismail Kadare
Theatre Writing Political Become Think Ancient Would More Moreover Writer Writers True Concerned Opinion Am Greek Than Any As Far As Literature Regime Far Actually
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom. Ismail Kadare
Work Service Freedom You Writing Will Way Dream All Writers One-Way Writer Writers Know Another Understand Normal Just Serious
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller. Isobelle Carmody
Life Before Spent Pretty Writer Am Very Being Storyteller Much Fortunate Whole
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique. Issa Rae
Knowledge You Experience Writing Own Way Bit See Pretty Horrible Writer Wrong Nobody Like Know Cliche Knows Go Your Unique Even Things
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect. Issey Miyake
Words Too Neither Writer Prospect Himself Am Nor Frightening Person Creates Means Regulate Theorist Who Many Utter Things
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. Italo Calvino
Myself Me Others Intolerable More More And More Writer Becoming Author Public Public Figure Figure Consequently
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. Italo Calvino
Madness Style Way City Logic Through Writer Towards Opens Encourages Which Vigor
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. Italo Calvino
Writer Never Any Loved Much Hemingway
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. Italo Calvino
Great Police Passion Find Followed Thrillers Excellent Writer Him Read Because Freud
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. Italo Calvino
Time Me Writing Every Every Time Later One Thing Writer Investigations Had Journalistic Academic Becoming Discovered The One Thing Cursed Fiction Helped Thing Save
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. J. B. Priestley
You Better Must Would Would-Be Write Writer Perhaps Then
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at. J. B. Smoove
Time You People Everything Tell Determine Through Writer Puzzle Comedian Piece End Up SNL Going Being Where Process Your Actor
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness. J. C. Chandor
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter. J. G. Ballard
Work Art Sometimes Think Has-Been Shanghai Writer Always Were Been Very Substitute Unfulfilled Sketching Galleries Painter Whole Keen Copying Career Museums
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves. J. G. Ballard
Time Reality Take For Granted Sense Imagination Deficiency Some Writer Take Part Make Make Up Exercise Up Just Process Themselves Act Granted Actor Basic Coping Imaginative Need
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective. J.I.D
Woman People Writing Perspective Other Writer Wanted Initially Hereditary
I'm a fast writer. J. J. Abrams
Writer Fast
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. J. K. Rowling
You Whatever Say About Casual Writer Feel Fairer Reviewers Than Wanted Vacancy
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