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• When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master’s program and studied American literature.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• There’s also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I’m doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

  P. J. Harvey

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• I’m not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  P. J. Harvey

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• You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

  Bryce Harper

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• Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that’s your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you’re never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

  Graham Swift

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• My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer’s upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

  Graham Swift

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• The writer’s is an interior world, a world of the mind.

  Vikas Swarup

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• I don’t look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  Vikas Swarup

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• I don’t think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

  Elizabeth Strout

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• I’ve learned so much as both a writer and a human.

  Cheryl Strayed

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• When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

  Willie Morris

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• I’ve never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I’ve always been a writer. That’s where I’m going to stay.

  Karrine Steffans

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• Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that’s how you know you’re a great writer.

  Karrine Steffans

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• Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  Dana Spiotta

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• That was one of the reasons I became a writer – I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

  Dana Spiotta

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  Jerry Spinelli

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  If you wish to be a writer, write.

  Epictetus

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• Motown was the mecca. It was every writer’s dream to work there.

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• It’s funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It’s not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

  Sam Shepard

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