#writer

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. ↗

— George Murray

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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#going #just #much #oppression #sit

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friends #good #good writer #his #only

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#author #become #best #who #will

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#believe #completely #done #i #i believe

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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