2372 Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker

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I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result. Rufus Wainwright

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels. Rumaan Alam

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A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution. Rumaan Alam

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There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the refrigerator has ever crossed their mind. Rumaan Alam

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For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract enough attention to make a living. Rumaan Alam

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I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer. Rupi Kaur

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I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing. Ruskin Bond

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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. Russell Baker

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Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer. Russell Smith

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I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way. Russell Smith

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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future. Russell Smith

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When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more. Russell Tovey

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I think as a writer, as an artist, I've grown a lot. Ruth B

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I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well. Ruth Reichl

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You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. Ruth Rendell

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I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. Ruth Rendell

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For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I think some of that was because - it was a little bit unfortunate - but it didn't make sense in the confines of my marriage for me to be the musician and the writer, which requires a lot of focus and attention. Ryan Adams

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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it. S. E. Hinton

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Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important. Sabaa Tahir

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