#writer

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

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Paula Cole

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I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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