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Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Ayn Rand

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer. — Amit Abraham

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. — Cassandra Clare

I write to understand what I know. — Kamand Kojouri

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do. — Ernest Hemingway,

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A.S. Byatt

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote. — Roseanne Barr

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. — Amy Winehouse

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. — Patti Smith

Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. — Adam Langer

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
— Carlos Fuentes

Vulnerability has a strength of its own. — William Zinsser

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir. — Dylan Moran

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing. — Mark Strong

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. — Keith Gessen

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. — Preston Sturges

(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even — Peter Straub

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. — Gail Carson Levine

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner

A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story. — Aleksandr Voinov

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. — John Green

Writer for Conan, wrote a character for me called Andy's Little Sister. Her name was Stacey and she wore headgear and was obsessed with Conan. — Amy Poehler

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought. — Bernard Jan

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson

I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down. — Ariel Gore

The travel writer Bruce Chatwin wrote that our nomadic past lives on in our need for distraction, our mania for the new. — Gloria Steinem

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please. — William Zinsser

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!' — Graham Moore

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. — James Hilton

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. — James Garner

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together. — Salma Hayek

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment. — William Zinsser

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer. — Robert Loomis

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. — Damien Chazelle

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be. — Jami Attenberg

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. — William Zinsser

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. — Mickey Spillane

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does. — John Logan

I wrote 1000 words yesterday and today I deleted them all. Who'd be a writer. — Ellie James

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.' — Craig T. Nelson