Quotes with co-writer

Quotes 121 till 140 of 271.

  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Amy Tan I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • John Millington Synge I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Ben Hecht I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III I'm not sure that it's the responsibility of a writer to give answers, especially to questions that have no answers.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bell Hooks I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Hader If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • William Faulkner If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Mark Twain If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don Delillo If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • W. H. Auden If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jackie Collins If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
    Jackie Collins
    English novelist (1937 - 2015)
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  • Epictetus If you wish to be a writer; write!
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Anthony Burgess If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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