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Writer Quotes (page 18)

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.) Anne Lamott
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers….This is why I love SF. I love to... Philip K. Dick
Candace Bushnell quote: "A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed..."
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 Candace Bushnell
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but the first-rate writer can only be experience. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. Willa Cather
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured. Haruki Murakami
Walter Mosley quote: "I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest..."
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. Walter Mosley
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. Walter Mosley
Toni Morrison quote: "Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native..."
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Toni Morrison
Robert Morgan quote: "Young writers find their first audience in little magazines,..."
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. Robert Morgan
Marianne Moore quote: "If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the..."
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. Marianne Moore
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. Rick Moody
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. Steven Moffat
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner. Phil Mickelson
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. Herbert Gold

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