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I became a writer in spite of my environments. Robert E. Howard

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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. Robert E. Howard

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I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work. Robert Englund

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. Robert Frost

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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. Robert Gottlieb

Me Writing Writer Never Wanted Decide Happened Start

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. Robert Gottlieb

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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. Robert Harris

Jokes Regret Able Writer Never Like Greatest Been Many Include

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place. Robert J. Sawyer

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I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach. Robert J. Sawyer

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I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people. Robert J. Sawyer

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Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. Robert Kirkman

Good Enough Everybody Books Exactly See Writer Like Well Talks

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely. Robert Klein

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I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way. Robert Kurson

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.' Robert Silverberg

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And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made. Robert Towne

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One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. Robertson Davies

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I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet. Robin Coste Lewis

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I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband. Robin Marantz Henig

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Sean's a great, great writer. Robin Wright

Great Writer Great Writer Sean

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. Robyn Davidson

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