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Writer Quotes
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
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"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
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"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."
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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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"I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
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"Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot."
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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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