2371 Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. James Garner

You Yourself Sense Writer Put Wrote Just Common Common Sense Aside Acting Hard

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer. James Gleick

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To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. James Henry Breasted

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I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis. James Herbert

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Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. James Houston

You Words Tools Writer Basic

I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into. James L. Brooks

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Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. James Laughlin

When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and I haven't really, you know. I've just told some stories. James McBride

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer. James McBride

God Thank God Before Writer Became Thank Reporter

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. James Patterson

Would Would-Be Could Writer Operation Craftsman

I don't think of myself as a writer. James Patterson

Myself Think Writer

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. James Rollins

Time Year Books Writer Block Two

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody. James Salter

You Somebody Become Writer Until Anybody

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher. James Snyder

Teacher Mom Real Estate Writer Retired Real Commercial Estate Dad

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. James Welch

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. James Wolcott

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I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer. Jami Attenberg

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I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing. Jami Attenberg

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I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me. Jane Fallon

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I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. Jane Gardam

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I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels. Jane Green

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The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill. Jane Green

Wonderful Everything About Writer Wonderful Thing Being Happens Mill Thing

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