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The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#am #amazed #fact #i #i am

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #stuff #torments #try #us

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#business #columnist #gossip #his #none

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#book #first #five #housewife #husband

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#call #called #comes #down #going

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#even #him #loved #makes #more

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#help #only #professional #professional writer #reason

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. ↗

— Tim Roth

#ideas #me #might #reason #write

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#adds #behind #chinese #congress #contrast

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

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