#writer

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! ↗

— Greg Bear

#contact #egalitarian #get #great #like

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ↗

— Aubrey Beardsley

#language #polite #rude #writers

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cynical #depressing #extremely #i #known

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous