A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
LiveHonorSenseWriter
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Roald Dahl
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
DayI AmMoreWriterThanShall
I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.
Petina Gappah
MeMeanAnythingBecauseGetWriter
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
FavoriteWriterJohnShort-Story
I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.
Rodman Philbrick
WhoWriterPlaywrightTheaterLoves
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.
Alastair Reynolds
OverBigWriterWordEveryHad
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
Paul Theroux
EqualPleasureWriterGivenOften
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
WithoutExistWriterReader
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
Romesh Gunesekera
ThinkSaidDisguiseBeingWriter
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Vince Gilligan
PowerfulNothingMoreWriterThan
I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a writer.
Twinkle Khanna
WordsWorldNowAlwaysBeenWriter
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher
GoodCrimeWayWriterSetTrick
For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
Mary Garden
LifeMy LifeLongYearsWriterHad
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Theodore Sturgeon
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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann
JoyThoughtBecomeEmotionWriter
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg
GoingBumWriterEither
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Mickey Spillane
I AmNowWriterAmAuthor
I like being a writer.
Terry Pratchett
BeingLikeWriter
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'
Norman Lindsay
WomenMenSayingSeeWithoutWriter
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
MemoryWithoutDysfunctionalWriter
I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.
Michiko Kakutani
I AmThinkWhyShyAwkwardWriter
Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.
Sandra Brown
MediaDallasBecomingWriterBefore
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
Noah Hathaway
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