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This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ... — Tim Perkins

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map. — Mamie Gummer

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. — Siri Hustvedt

She (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. — Bella Freud

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living. — Ann Patchett

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. — Arundhati Roy

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer? — Steven Pressfield

You cannot grow If you are not reading. — Andrea L'Artiste

Even the caged bird flys out when someone opens the door for it — Andrea L'Artiste

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. — Coco J. Ginger

You cannot grow if you are not Thinking — Andrea L'Artiste

Closed eyes cannot see the light — Andrea L'Artiste

People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner. — Andrea L'Artiste

The job of an artist and writer is to see the things other people miss and introduce the two. — Janyre Tromp

If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan. — Andre Gide

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. — Charlotte Eriksson

To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist. — Adona M. Pierre

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. — Charlotte Eriksson

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. — James Frey

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ... — Simone De Beauvoir

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own. — Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader. — Darrell Case

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. — John F. Kennedy

Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. — Kata Mlek

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. — Susan Sontag

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already. — Cy Coleman

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced — Agatha Christie

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. — Roddy Woomble

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it. — Leila Sales

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM. — Renae A. Sauter

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. — Peter Landesman

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists. — Cynthia Ozick

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist. — Rebecca Makkai

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. — Mitch Albom

Any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist ... I am a person who does those things. — Edward Gorey

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. — Patti Smith

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors. — Peggy A. Borel

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. — Joyce Carol Oates

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. — Victor J. Banis

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment. — Fennel Hudson

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. — Marianne Moore

I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest. — Robin Sacredfire

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not. — Arthur Koestler

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes. — David Scheier

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself. — Lykke Li

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball. — Larry Sanders

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle! — Conor Maynard

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. — Anais Nin

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

it. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. — Steven Pressfield

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged. — Andrea L'Artiste

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning. — Gerald Brommer

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan

An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas. — Hanya Yanagihara

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. — Tom Scholz

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. — Erica Jong

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! — Charles M. Schulz

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. — Ralph Steadman

So - you're a writer. You're an artist. — Elizabeth Strout

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. — Tom Brady

My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant- — Andrea L'Artiste

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it. — Charlotte Eriksson

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you. — Kamand Kojouri

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. — Steven Pressfield

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back. — Bob Dylan

He traced her arched eyebrow. "Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you're more beautiful than yesterday. — Lindsay McKenna

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. — Stevie Nicks

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. — Charles R. Jackson

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. — David Guterson

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet - our figure for the writer as artist - to write is to get real. — Gemino H. Abad

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck. — Joyce Rachelle

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. — Steven Pressfield

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P.J. Harvey

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ] — Gary Shteyngart