#writer

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#lost #seeks #travel #valleys #world

Today, writers want to impress other writers. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#other #today #want #writers

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ↗

— Richard Curtis

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I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#book #buy #care #earn #foster

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#alive #did #done #fits #i

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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