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• The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

  James Baldwin

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• One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

  Wole Soyinka

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• I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

  Rosanne Cash

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• Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

  William Weaver

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• I just don’t see myself as a travel writer. I can’t. I don’t.

  Robyn Davidson

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• The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

  Robertson Davies

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• I’ve been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it’s pretty equal. I don’t know why that is. It’s been the same thing for a while. It’s hard for female comedians to stand out. That’s weird. That’s a shame.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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• Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord’s day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

  Charles Buck

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• Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

  Robert Morgan

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• Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences – we’re just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

  Charlaine Harris

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• The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.

  Elia Kazan

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• I always serve the writer first because I’m English trained, even though I’m American.

  Robert Englund

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• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

  Wilfrid Sheed

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• You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don’t even have women in them, so I’m lucky I’m in it at all.

  Elle Macpherson

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• The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

  Rob Corddry

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• Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

  Catherine McCormack

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• For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

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• I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

  Ridley Scott

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie – a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

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