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A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

Quotes by Ethan Coen

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Quotes by Eric Fellner

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Quotes by Epictetus

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

Quotes by Enzo Amore

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I'm a dark thoughts writer.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Quotes by Ellen Bass

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

Quotes by Elizabeth George

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

Quotes by Edward Hirsch

A writer's work is to witness things.

Quotes by Edward Hoagland

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Quotes by Edmund White

I'm not a great writer.

Quotes by E. L. James

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

I am not a consecutive writer.

Quotes by Dr. Seuss

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

Quotes by Douglas Kennedy

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

Quotes by Doris Lessing

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

I'm a workaday writer.

Quotes by Donald McCaig

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Quotes by Diane Mott Davidson

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

Quotes by Diablo Cody

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

Quotes by Dermot Healy

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

Quotes by DeRay Mckesson

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

Quotes by Dee Rees

I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.

Quotes by Deborah Harkness

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

Quotes by Debbie Harry

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Quotes by Dean Acheson

The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.

Quotes by Dean Bakopoulos

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

Quotes by Dean Bakopoulos

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

Quotes by David Remnick

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

Quotes by David Milch

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

Quotes by David M. Evans

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

Quotes by David L. Wolper

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

Quotes by David Guterson

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

Quotes by David Droga

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Quotes by David E. Kelley

I've never had writer's block.

Quotes by David Byrne

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

Quotes by David Bergen

The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.

Quotes by Dave Morris

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

Quotes by Darin Strauss

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

Quotes by Dani Shapiro

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

Quotes by Dana Loesch

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Quotes by Dan Simmons

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

Quotes by Damien Chazelle

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'

Quotes by Craig T. Nelson

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Quotes by Conrad Hall

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

Quotes by Colin Wilson

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

Quotes by Claire Messud

Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.

Quotes by Cillian Murphy

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Quotes by Christopher Durang

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

Quotes by Christopher Buckley

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

Quotes by Chris Rock

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Quotes by Chris Van Allsburg

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Quotes by Chris Cleave

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

Quotes by Cass Sunstein

I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the 'Kitty' books.

Quotes by Carrie Vaughn

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

Quotes by Carolyn Chute

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

Quotes by Carolyn Chute

I'm a writer, not a genre.

Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

Quotes by Bruce Jackson

I don't call myself a writer.

Quotes by Bruce Boxleitner

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

Quotes by Brian Reynolds Myers

Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

Quotes by Bobbie Ann Mason

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Quotes by Bob Schieffer

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Quotes by Bob Kane

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

Quotes by Billy Burke

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

Quotes by Bill Callahan

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

Quotes by Beverly Lewis

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Quotes by Bernard Malamud

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Quotes by Benjamin Walker

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Quotes by Ben Falcone

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

Quotes by bell hooks

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

Quotes by Ben Affleck

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

Quotes by Bel Powley

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Quotes by Athol Fugard

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi

I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

Quotes by Arundhati Roy

When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.

Quotes by Arijit Singh

I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte..

Quotes by Ari Melber

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Anton Chekhov

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Quotes by Anthony Doerr

The writer studies literature, not the world.

Quotes by Annie Dillard

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

Quotes by Anne M. Mulcahy

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Quotes by Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Quotes by Anne Enright

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Quotes by Ann Beattie

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Quotes by Andy Rooney

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Quotes by Andy Rooney

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Quotes by Andrew Vachss

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