Top Writer Quotes
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Ricky Martin
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
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He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
Simon Callow 
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
Russell Banks
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike
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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Steven Seagal
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Patton Oswalt
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
Ralph Fiennes
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony
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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
Mary Garden
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