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The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. Joseph Wambaugh
Made Field Onion Writer Knew Over Real Anymore Then Cop
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings
Hope Good Achieve Judgment Honestly Good Judgment About Steal Writer Most Any Originality
I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer. Josh Tillman
Hilarious Think Writer West Kanye Kanye West
The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself. Joshua Cohen
Work Myself Internet Before Else Say Out Writer Never Makes Said Caught Repeating Harder Things Here
A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen. Joshua Cohen
Me Writing Own Everything Characters Something My Own Fact Writer He Name Like Smoke Felt Does Said Provided Screen In Fact Appears
I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer. Joshua Ferris
Considering Writer Never Becoming Stopped
There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.' Joss Whedon
Time People Writing Before Think Tell About Something Through Writer Over Come Like Until Felt Understand Yarn Real Understood Came Just Where Want Wanted Story Might Then Away
You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon
Morning You Jokes Late Late-Night Favorite Some Writer Had Absurd Know Most Make Deadline Make Up Because Always Up Your Four Early Night Early Morning
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life. Joss Whedon
Life Teacher Mom My Life Those Television Has-Been Writer Combining Sort Been His Goal Dad Two
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. Joy Williams
Think Starts Other Enough Out Writer Contact Making Up Human Just Ends Human Beings Wanting Agent Beings
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. Joyce Carol Oates
Great Me Better Made Worse Detroit Writer Am Subject Person Consequently
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. Joyce Carol Oates
Silence You Yourself Writing Matter Space Car Locate Writer Driving Because Housework Still Doing Walking Wall Behind
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. Joyce Carol Oates
Life People Personality World Politician Complex See Writer Simply Artist
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. Joyce Carol Oates
Matter Important Relative Books Insignificant Strongest Writer Ultimately Really Productivity
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. Joyce Carol Oates
Love Time You Tell Writer Get Stories Storytelling Thing
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties. Joyce Carol Oates
Age Writing Young More Writer Never Knew Ideal Became Always Very Young Age Wanted Really Twenties Conscious
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. Joyce Maynard
Free Subscribe Types Some Remain Writer Mere Mortals Like Salinger Person Being Literary Might Notion Standards Apply
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. Juan Goytisolo
Language Innocent Innocence Abandon Inspiration Writer Never Simply Feign Himself Because Cannot
The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. Judith Tarr
Time Great Master Seventies Carter Writer Adult Reader Were His American Wonders Interesting Century Fantasy Tolkien Series Twentieth Twentieth Century Early British
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way. Judith Tarr
Own Baby Way Ways Tell Find Inspiration Writer Take Also Predecessors Stories Should Her
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write. Judith Viorst
Me People Writing Distinct Ways Would Would-Be Kinds About Could Individual Write Writer Pick Like Want If I Could Reason Connect Connection Whom Why Things
My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12. Judith Viorst
Good Me Age Thought Girl Leader Advice More Could Writer Good Writer She Talked Up Scout Listened Interesting Less Grow Grow Up
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. Judy Blume
Great Mother Father Dreamed Detective About Writer Like Read Although Always Becoming Ballerina Spy Up Dentist Loved Certainly Growing Growing Up Homemaker Actress
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind. Judy Davis
Truth Better Mind Think Possibly More Writer Generally Had Written Dealing Always Male Than Role Roles Trying Much Actress
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.' Julia Glass
Myself Good Soul Surrender Heart Mind Reading Give Writer Over Truths Wondering Happened Whether Really Novel Waste
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. Julia Glass
People Spend Seem Inventing Only Writer Days Make-Believe Real Fiction Create Lives
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