What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Bryce Courtenay
MePointBeingSenseJustWriter
As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.
Philip Roth
I AmKindPretendWhoWriterAm
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
WritingUnderstandInterestWriter
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
MyselfThinkWriterI Think
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Alfred A. Knopf
JobDreamLooksSharingHimWriter
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
Susan Hill
ImaginationNobodyOwnOnlyWriter
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh
JobFirstHonestTo Be HonestWriter
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies
QualitySaidWayInfluencesWriter
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
Alan Furst
ReadingDegreeUpWriterGenreGrew
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
Peter Bichsel
I AmNobodySaidWriteWriterKnew
I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
SuccessfulWriterRatherThanFailed
Everybody I know is a joke writer.
Ron White
KnowJokeWriterEverybody
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
Alain de Botton
BecomeNeverWriterNightmareEver
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
Paulo Coelho
DreamBecomeWriterTeenagerSince
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
Hal Sparks
ThingsLikeWriterDissecting
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
Rumaan Alam
OrganizingUsefulWriterBetween
Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
Will Self
WorldWantWriterEnglish-Speaking
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
Thornton Wilder
FriendBestBest FriendWriter
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
LiveChooseCannotAbleWriterHe
If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.
Mary Gauthier
FamilyTreeStartFindWillWriter
When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice.
Theresa Rebeck
JobBlueVoiceShowWriterDeliver
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Thomas Merton
MeInstinctsWriterMonastery
It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.
Ace Young
MeThinkUnderstandWriterHow
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Mickey Spillane
BookSheWriterCommercialWrote
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