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All writers are vampires.
All writers have their own pet commandments.
All writers have the idea that they are famous.
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.
I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target and Barnes & Noble is pretty successful.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.