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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #had #i #since #teenager

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bullets #compared #dodging #dungeons #famine

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#considered #explore #i #i always #minor

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#big mouth #good #i #mouth #now

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#been #being #every #executive #executive producer

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗

— Holly Valance

#buying #done #entertainment #fictional #hopefully

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. ↗

— Paula Cole

#being #i #i am #internal #introvert