“ There was never a lighting crew, sound crew, makeup crew, anything,... The list of cameramen is a list of great bebop musicians and writers in L.A., buddies of ours who just happened to be around. ”
- Penn Jillette- Copy
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“ I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 3.3K
“ They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
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“ For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rTgime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer. ”
- David Lodge- Copy
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“ It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important — and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year… ”
- Chinua Achebe- Copy
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“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”
- Curt Rosten- Copy
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“ What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ”
- Hugo Gernsback- Copy
- 274
“ For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. ”
- Eric Idle- Copy
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“ I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. ”
- Owen Arthur- Copy
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“ My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart. ”
- Jerry Springer- Copy
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“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”
- Rita Dove- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason… to write for me. ”
- Tim Roth- Copy
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“ Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
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“ One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
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“ For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ”
- Nicholson Baker- Copy
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“ Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ”
- James Albert Michener- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both. ”
- James C. Hagerty- Copy
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“ A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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