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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben

Mother, Wanted, Story

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben

Time, Father, Book

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben

Work, Fear, Job

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben

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

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Tony Kushner

Life, Strange, Write

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
Chaim Potok

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

Work, Find, Enough

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Roald Dahl

Work, Him, Himself

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.
Lauren Conrad

Tv, Slash, Designer

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.
Lauren Conrad

Good, Great, Taking

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
will.i.am

Block, Freestyle

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann

Able, Idea, Task

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann

Thought, Joy, Become

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Dennis Miller

May, Two, Thousand

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

Tell, Stranger, Fame

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan

Yourself, Filmmaker, Symbols

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Haruki Murakami

Respect, Humble, Enjoy

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

After, Getting, Everyday

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami

Time, Live, Nothing

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Haruki Murakami

Dream, While, Awake

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki Murakami

Good, History, War

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
Haruki Murakami

Fun, Powerful, Write

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki Murakami

Good, Ambition, High

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
Julie Burchill

Money, Alone, Two

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
Julie Burchill

Sense, Expecting, Humour

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
Jodi Picoult

Work, Business, Friends

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman

Funny, Sad, Yourself

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Rules, Magic, Works

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Cyril Connolly

Great, Live, May

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