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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows.

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