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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Tori Amos

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck

Faith, Work, Hope

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen

Writing, Value, Written

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
John Irving

Time, Alone, Find

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry

Long, Writing, Happen

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson

Love, Women, Lesbian

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

Rich, Poor, Seems

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
George Lucas

Good, Write, Although

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

Him, Proud, Often

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop

Good, Drunk, Book

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Sylvester Stallone

Business, Talk, Personal

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
John Cleese

Happy, Mind, Writing

I've never had writer's block.
David Byrne

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Perhaps, Talker

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre

Lonely, Away, Rather

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
Stephen Fry

Words, Paper, Somehow

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Camille Paglia

Poetry, Words, Down

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Ezra Pound

Work, Writing, Criticism

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda

Work, True, Personal

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

Morning, Reason, Far

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
Jose Saramago

Life, Best, Made

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola

Done, Another, American

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Ben Okri

Best, Writing, Reader

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov

Poet, Scientist, Precision

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Artist, Simply

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates

Before, America, American

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Study, Keep, Point

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Marguerite Duras

Women, Men, Country

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Good, Help, Cannot

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