#writer

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it. ↗

— Patti Davis

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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

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At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

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And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ↗

— Brian Lumley

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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. ↗

— Howie Mandel

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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

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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

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