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I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.
Mindy Kaling

Woman, Person, Joke

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
Mindy Kaling

Life, Food, Important

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.
Mindy Kaling

Love, Time, Long

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.
Mindy Kaling

Amazing, Hard, Try

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
Adam Carolla

Funny, Humor, Fire

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Patti Smith

Sorry, Regrets, Singer

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith

Women, Young, Read

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
Patti Smith

Kids, Written, Developing

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Love, Before

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
David Mamet

Politics, Guy, Ask

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet

Tell, Silent, Ask

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber

Life, Love, Death

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James

Love, Himself, Hold

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham

Doubt, After, Story

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor

God, Business, Book

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor

Nothing, Attention, Ashamed

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor

Live, Cannot, Able

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker

Work, Writing, Real

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Bryan Cranston

Work, Good, Important

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz

Said, Times, Horror

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders

Yourself, Care, Job

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge, Science, Writing

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag

Alone, After, Able

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag

Someone, Everything, Idea

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul

Good, She, Feminine

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul

Lies, Facts, Fiction

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
V. S. Naipaul

Work, Learn, Left

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