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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Judge, Everything, Down

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman

Good, Liars, Bad

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Depression, Once

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts

Love, Writing, Same

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
Jerry Saltz

Art, She, Until

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner

Director, Performer, Comedian

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
Alanis Morissette

Mind, Person, Try

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis Morissette

Music, Writing, Books

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

Acting, Wanted, Hockey

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
Michael J. Fox

Dad, Husband, Student

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt

Love, Good, Trying

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

After, Wanted, College

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams

Words, Word, Hand

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor

Time, Find, Problem

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
Bryant H. McGill

True, Talent, Poet

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
Chris Rock

Time, Wanted, Comedy

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

Death, Law, Actually

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yourself, Ignorance, Understand

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.
Jeff Bridges

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

May, Him, Often

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

Word, Perhaps, Paid

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.
Terry Pratchett

Great, Two, Try

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett

Glad, Genre, Knighthood

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen

Small, Try, Explore

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl

Freedom, Fool, Person

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose

Successful, Secret, Number

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
Shia LaBeouf

Work, Money, Respect

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau

Death, Long, After

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
Tori Amos

Life, Dreams, Time

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