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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. J. M. Coetzee
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A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness. J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. Jack Vance
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. Jack Vance
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I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically. Jacob Tremblay
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. Jacqueline Carey
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As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! Jacqueline Susann
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In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me. Jacqueline Woodson
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The conscious imprinting that happens between, say, 10 and 16 is huge. I think it's so important for me as a writer to stay open to the memories of that period because they were so formative. Jacqueline Woodson
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The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude. Jaime Ray Newman
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring. Jamaica Kincaid
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. James A. Michener
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I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. James A. Michener
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Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort. James Altucher
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President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel. James B. Stewart
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. James Baldwin
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer. James Baldwin
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. James Baldwin
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I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, 'Dave Eggers.' James Bernard Frost
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My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books. James Burrows
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Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? James D. Houston
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I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. James Ellroy
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The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. James Fallows
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another. James Franco
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I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have. James Frey
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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. James Frey
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