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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.
Stephen Frears
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As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!


Jacqueline Susann
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Jean M. Auel
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I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
Jonathan Kozol
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
James Frey
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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.


will.i.am
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You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.
Jamie Hewlett
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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
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When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.
Melonie Diaz
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I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.
Sophie Kinsella
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Gregory David Roberts
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.


Robert Frost
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.


Steve Buscemi
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The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
Christopher Paolini
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.


Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.


Steven Millhauser
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