Quotes with co-writer

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  • N. Algren A writer doesn't really live, he observes.
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  • Leonard Bernstein A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Gregory Nunn A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Anton Chekhov A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Karl Kraus A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marianne Moore A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Maurice Blanchot A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Koestler A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • John Irving A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Andy Rooney A writer's job is to tell the truth.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Josh Billings About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Saul Bellow All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • V.S. Naipaul An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
    The Writer and the World (2012) 225
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Malcolm X An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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