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  You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

  Doris Lessing

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• I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer’s block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter – now, computer – lit up a cigarette.

  Frederik Pohl

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• The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

  Fred Saberhagen

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• I’m a writer, so I like dissecting things.

  Hal Sparks

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  Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  Aaron Sorkin

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• But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

  Beth Henley

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• I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I’m just so not a writer.

  Patricia Clarkson

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• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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• A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

  P. L. Travers

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• When we’ve finished the current tour I’m going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

  Gerry Mulligan

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  I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

  Alfred Hitchcock

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• Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

  Gerald Brenan

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• Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

  Trey Anastasio

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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  Fran Drescher

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• To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there’s less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it’s not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• Brooklyn is kind of my writer’s retreat.

  Tracy K. Smith

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at ‘Chicago’ magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

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• I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted.

  Fiona Shaw

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• I don’t believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn’t pay anything, and that sort of thing.

  George Woodcock

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• I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

  Tom T. Hall

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