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It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Good, Home

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor

Work, Ignorance, Real

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.
Kristen Stewart

Off, College, Awesome

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

True, Task, Function

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
Shelby Foote

Good, War, Words

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman

Men, Nice, Parents

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
Hugh Leonard

Difficult, Grief, Observing

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp

Money, Long, Three

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

Life, Work, Great

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing

Love, Away, Idea

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
Doris Lessing

Today, Hard, Young

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams

Time, Social, Both

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

Car, Yourself, Writing

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling

Frustrated, Actor, Hidden

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
Anne Lamott

Best, Become, Learn

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Paul Valery

Mistaken, Impeccable, Poe

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Joan Didion

Life, Lead, Source

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks

Children, Decision, Made

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
Kesha

Started, Accident, Singer

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
Leslie Fiedler

Writing, Old, Put

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
Leslie Fiedler

Thought, Comic, Kafka

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler

Time, Truth, Tell

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Leslie Fiedler

Good, Easy, Imitate

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
Leslie Fiedler

Somebody, Critic, Asks

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
Bell Hooks

Women, Black, Read

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
Lena Dunham

Nature, Thought, Comedy

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan

Experience, Writing, Matter

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.
Diablo Cody

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Diablo Cody

Hope, Find, Possible

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.
Diablo Cody

Good, Great, Happen

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