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We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'


John Green


#i #i remember #kid #kurt #like

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.


Seth Green


#black #doing #during #i #into

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.


Graham Greene


#being #boring #even #every #everything

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.


Graham Greene


#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.


Zane Grey


#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.


John Grisham


#been #being #doubt #dreamed #ever

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.


John Grisham


#because #catch #fiction #good #great

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.


John Grisham


#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.


Matt Groening


#happens #i #just #who #writer

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.


Matt Groening


#conan #like #lot #moved #moved on






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