“ I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. ”
- T. S. Eliot- 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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“ A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ 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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“ The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. ”
- Thomas Keneally- Copy
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“ We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe. ”
- Alfred Kinsey- Copy
- 936
“ 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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“ 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
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“ 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
- 210
“ 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 am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. ”
- Owen Arthur- Copy
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“ We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. ”
- Amy Goodman- 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. ”
- Alfred Kinsey- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. ”
- Caleb Carr- Copy
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“ In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. ”
- Geoffrey Cottrell- Copy
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“ The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
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“ When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. ”
- Sam Shepard- Copy
- 562
“ 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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