Writer Quotes
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Write Quotes
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When you take stuff from one writer it`s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it`s research.
Wilson Mizner
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive
Leslie McIntyre
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Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Donal Henahan
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
Barbara Holland
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P.L. Travers
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P.L. Travers
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don`t dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
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A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
Dylan Thomas
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When you take stuff from one writer it`s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it`s research.
Wilson Mizner
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway
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I work with the director and the other actors, but I figure that is about two inches of something that is a yard long. The other 34 inches is what I have to do myself. So far I have not conflicted with a director or writer or anybody else. But I know basi...
Geoffrey Lewis
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction. Right now, my favorite author is p...
Cassie Steele
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction. Right now, my favorite author is p...
Cassie Steele
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[yo 1979 Academy Awards show writer Buz Kohan, after receiving his honorary Oscar] God, I mucked that up. I had no idea what I was saying but I didn`t want to stop.
Laurence Olivier
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That`s the hard thing about adapting a book that`s so well loved. It`s like playing Hamlet. The audience doesn`t buy it, because they`re Hamlet. How could you possibly be Hamlet when Hamlet is them? It`s one of those difficult things where a good writer g...
Liev Schreiber
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I only sound intelligent when there`s a good script writer around.
Christian Bale
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My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for filmmaking than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I ha...
Pedro Almodovar
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I`m not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that`s more what entertainment and music should be.
Chris Cornell
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I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I`d say that`s about 80% of the part. The director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn`t reall...
Linda Harrison
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I learn a lot from acting, but it`s not my natural way. I can`t help but write; I do it all the time. It`s a condition of being for me. I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing. As far as producing, I like to faci...
Mary Masterson
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