#writer

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing. ↗

— William Styron

#keep #writer #writing

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#before #dollars #expresses #i #me

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! ↗

— Jacqueline Susann

#how #i #me #tell #wanna

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#itself #keep #managing #miraculous #show

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#i #keep #keep talking #men #pitch

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#author #i #i am #now #writer

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#chooses #concerns #cultural #deal #given

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#bum #got #into #money #states

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#i #undisciplined #writer