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

Rather, Knows, Fiction

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
John le Carre

Real, Between, Lies

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Len Wein

Work, Someone, Matter

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein

Writing, Done, Give

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
Len Wein

Thought, Place, Rather

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen

Block, Newsroom

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty

Life, Experience, Writing

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J. G. Ballard

Reality, Almost, Role

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Conrad Hall

Director, Filmmaker

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
Dave Eggers

Hope, Respect, Almost

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove

Personal, Read, Republican

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
Lewis Black

Great, Joke, Odd

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Expression, French

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Strength, Creative, Vision

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
Isabel Allende

Family, Person, Trapped

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
Isabel Allende

Experience, Find, Living

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende

Great, Angry, Try

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
Ben Affleck

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Tony Kushner

Work, Movies, Live

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
Jane Smiley

Life, Ignorance, Through

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud

Everything, Looking, Eye

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl

Fear, Lives, Sure

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Roald Dahl

Drink, Needs, Wants

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
Nikki Giovanni

Authority, Reader, Skepticism

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
Sherman Alexie

Experience, Tired, Write

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Arthur Koestler

Time, Ambition, Ten

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
J. J. Abrams

Work, Good, Seem

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West

Family, Society, Alone

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