Writer Quotes

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer. Tom Wolfe

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've ever read of his I've really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society. Tom Wolfe

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I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. Tomi Adeyemi

Book Publish Say One Book At Least One Writer Least Did Needed

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter. Tony Judt

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I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. Tony Kushner

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. Tori Amos

Myself Out Carved Writer Really Career

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. Tracy Kidder

Living Way Easy Easy Way Writer Make Being Professional Professional Writer

I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally. Travis Beacham

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative. Travis Beacham

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great. Trey Parker

Love Time Great Together Law Simple Opposites Every Writer Taking Putting Knows Same Same Time Anything Which Room Them Two

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. Tucker Max

Success Good Great Writer Feel Most Great Writer Editor Opposed Being

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days. Tyson Fury

Best People Writing World Though More Write Writer Take Days Like Course Send Many Even Letters Neatly

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside. V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. V. S. Naipaul

Thought Tough Writer Really

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. V. S. Naipaul

Work Out Writer Had Highest Learn Felt Always Equipped Left Craft Oxford Regard Then Really Set

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul

People Reading Think Other Kind Writer Am

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul

Will Writer Always Autobiography Even Biography

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul

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The writer is all alone. V. S. Naipaul

Alone Writer

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? V. S. Naipaul

Character Yourself Made Giving Trouble Looking Enough Writer Like Him Around Go Just Asking Many Things

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. Vaclav Klaus

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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. Vanessa Marano

Great Writer Writes Performance She Great Writer Really

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