2371 Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write. Jane Green

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I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose. Jane Green

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When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.' Jane Lindskold

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand. Jane Smiley

I'm not a disciplined writer. Janeane Garofalo

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I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business. Janet Evanovich

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I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer. Janet Evanovich

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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Janet Fitch

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As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled. Janet Fitch

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The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway. Janette Turner Hospital

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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. Janis Ian

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When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. Janis Ian

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist. Jared Kushner

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I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around. Jasmila Zbanic

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I just remember how cool and exciting and crazy it seemed when Marvel was giving this new 'Ultimate Spider-Man' title to this crime writer Brian Michael Bendis who had never really done any superhero stuff before. Jason Aaron

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I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience. Jason Aaron

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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be. Jason Gann

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If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song. Jason Isbell

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For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger. Jason Isbell

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The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy. Jason Katims

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