#writer

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#could #dresser #had #hair #i

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#blues #book #country #get #i

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#facts #good #hard #hard life #i

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers. ↗

— Susie Orbach

#life

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#son #songwriter

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. ↗

— James Welch

#i #i think #insulting #labels #people

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#around #go #go home #home #i

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anything #essential #experience #first #matter

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort