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I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am. Said Sayrafiezadeh
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When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power. Salim Akil
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. Sally Mann
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value. Sally Phillips
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A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know. Sally Rooney
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. Salvatore Quasimodo
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. Sam Abell
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In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't consider myself great. There's Woody Allen and Aaron Sorkin. There's Quentin Tarantino. I'm not ever gonna be on that level. But I do consider myself a good filmmaker. Sam Esmail
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time. Sam Mendes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors. Sam Rockwell
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. Sam Shepard
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. Sam Shepard
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On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer. Sam Shepard
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer. Sam Shepard
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I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. Samantha Morton
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything. Samantha Shannon
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There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am. Samin Nosrat
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. Samuel E. Morison
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson
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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. Samuel R. Delany
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer. Sandra Brown
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Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas. Sandra Brown
Before ABC Writer Becoming Worked Media Dallas
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat. Sandra Brown
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I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. Sandra Cisneros
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