#writer

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. ↗

— Paul Bailey

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If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

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