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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul

Dead, Hostility, Generate

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul

Yourself, Energy, Easy

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
V. S. Naipaul

Life, Experience, Another

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
V. S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone.
V. S. Naipaul

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown

Means, Comic, Bull

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman

Someone, Hard, Black

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
Ice Cube

Love, Music, Freedom

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi

Health, Job, Artist

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon

Work, Together, Creative

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
Eddie Vedder

Good, Enough, Try

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
Christian Bale

Good, Around, Sound

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.
Christian Bale

Work, Person, Rather

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
Jimmy Buffett

Down, Write, Hear

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
Jimmy Buffett

Find, Others, Write

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike

Said, Until, Works

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Amy Tan

Everything, Makes, Actually

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Joan Didion

Dream, Listening, Reader

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.
Joan Didion

Good, Bad, Someone

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre

Experience, Through, Lives

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.
Ellie Goulding

Emotional, Human, Afraid

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus

Someone, Answer, Riddle

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus

Time, Person, Ideas

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong

Money, Getting, Miracle

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson

Love, Work, Book

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan

Someone, Others, Artist

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Harlan Coben

Time, Find, Write

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben

Care, Write, Anyone

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
Harlan Coben

Heart, Human, After

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben

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