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Letter "W" » Writers
«I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.»
Author: James A. Michener
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
crucial, The Variations, variation, variations
«I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.»
«I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.»
Author: John Mortimer
| About:
Censorship,
Fear,
Law and lawyers,
Writers
| Keywords:
censorship, dread, fearful, flattered, in a way, primitive, print
«I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned up the bad taste to move to Los Angeles.»
«It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.»
«I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Inspiration,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
inspired, see to it
«I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(Painter)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Men and Women,
Opinions,
Politicians,
Women,
Writers
«I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
dedication, membership, passionately, perfectibility
«I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.»
Author: Leo Burnett
(Executive)
| About:
Ideas,
Learning,
Respect,
Writers
| Keywords:
account executive, clients, executives, regardless
«I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.»
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