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- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell
Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.
— Stephen King
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
— Walter Hill
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
— Criss Jami
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
— Raymond Chandler
I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
— Doreen Cronin
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
— Lee Child
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
— Alice Lowe
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
— John Amos
It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.
— Robin Williams
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
— Fannie Hurst
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
— Rachel Kushner
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
— Albert Brooks
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
— Regina Brett
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
— Elmore Leonard
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
— Gloria Steinem
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
— R.L. Stine
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
— Ray Bradbury
If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.
— Shannon L. Alder
A good writer wants from us - or has no right to ask more than - intelligence, good faith and time.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
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
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
— Heidi Julavits
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
— Shel Silverstein
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
— Emma Donoghue
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.
— Cynthia Rylant