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“As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.”

Writing Use Process Internet Platforms Writing Process

“As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.”

Writing Inspiration Imagination Mercy Intuition Writer Writers Life

“As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.”

Trying Important Christian Religious Principles Intention Witness Framework Pilgrimage

Author:William Zinsser

“As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ends Character Film Voice Chance Opinion Audience Right Thing Telling The Truth

Author:Spike Lee

“As a writer I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.”

Way Feels Emotion

Author:Cher Lloyd

“As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.”

“As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.”

Trying Firsts Stories Reader Picks First Time Keep Going Impersonate

Author:George Saunders

“As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.”

Writing Journalist

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.”

Mad Villain

Author:Lev Grossman

“As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.”

Explanation Mistrust Narrators

Author:D. T. Max

“As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.”

Mind Certain Views Bears Lessons Careful I've Learned Be Careful Misinterpreted

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“As a writer, it’s always the hardest when you want to close a story.”

Life Facts Writers Quotes Closing A Story

Author:Chaker Khazaal

Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…

“As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.”

World Writing I Can Ideas Might Jobs Values Actors Can Do Scene Add Scripts Ruins Vague Quirks Vague Ideas

Author:Sally Phillips

“As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!”

Way Writing

Author:Jacqueline Susann

“As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.”

Ifs Reason Hate Can Do Interesting Worst Love You Reader Waste Criticism Critics Consumers Reason Why Wasting Time Worst Things Interesting Things Time And Money

Author:Jonathan Gold

“As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.”

Way Kind Social Deals Fiction Technology Special Affair Social Change Up And Down

Author:William Gibson

“As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'”

Years Believe Stills Philosophy Asks Week Months Oneself I Still Believe

Author:Criss Jami

Source: Killosophy

“As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.”

Writing Song Powerful Wonder Seeing Keys Worship Response Hunger Passionate Breathe Revelations Reverence Worship Songs

Author:Matt Redman

“As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Challenges Fiction Universal Distance Edges Locals Meat Midst Pale Fiction Writers

Author:William Trevor

“As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.”

Chance Fool

Author:Anne Sexton

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”

Humans Made Race Conversation Oneself Human Race Sane

Author:Alan Ayckbourn

“As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.”

Book Dream Reading Realizing Subjects Obvious Dreamer Books And Reading Writers Reading

Author:Toni Morrison

Source: Playing in the Dark

“As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.”

Ifs Needs Protect Instruments

Author:Dani Shapiro

“As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?”

Happens Decision Brave Marketing Colleagues Audacious Erudite

Author:Jillian Medoff

“As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.”

Thinking Writing Important Fiction Ethics Genre Firm Nonfiction

Author:Kathleen Rooney

“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.”

World Persons Country Able Law Can Do Cities Loneliness Solitude Maps Dictator Up To You Obedient Your Freedom

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.”

Writing Dream Asks Awake

Author:Aimee Bender

“As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.”

Should Stories Response

Author:John Dufresne

“As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.”

Writers On Writing Stoneking

Author:Billy Marshall Stoneking

“As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.”

Duty Messengers

Author:Jay Griffiths

“As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.”

People Knows Years Book Political Fighting Deals Couple Crap Publishers Publicists

Author:Robert Greene

“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.”

Travel Writing Objectivity Subjectivity

Author:William Knowlton Zinsser

Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.”

Thinking Character Bigs Actors Details Big Picture Storyline Minutiae Small Details

Author:Richard Dormer

“As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.”

Needs Feels Sometimes Shakes

Author:George Meyer

“As a writer, your voice represents your passions and human experiences. It is distinct, powerful, and will forever reside within pages that may age but will always retain the wisdom of your existence.”

Existence Emotions Life Quotes And Sayings Writer

Author:Dhayana Alejandrina

Source: Agridulce: poetry and prose

“As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.”

Want Writing Actors Great Actors

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.”

Giving Creator

Author:Frank Ocean

“As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.”

People Trying Path Danger Corners New Paths Lyricists

Author:Corey Taylor

“As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.”

Emotion Worried Storyteller

Author:John Ridley

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Writing Trying I Can Different Matter Character Wonderful Offers Female Stronger Hats Gray Female Characters Gray Matter

Author:Tate Taylor

“As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.”

People Stills Facts Creator Fantastic

Author:Phil Collins

“As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the movie is a success, then your horse won and people were right to bet on it. From my experience, and a lot of others have done it, it's the best way to start out in the industry and get recognition, which will then get you more work, and later on will allow you to do your own movies.”

People Ifs Way Done Running Race Industry Essentials Horse Credit Best Way Recognition Running Race

Author:Matthew Jacobs

“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become.”

Way Writing Children Long Sentences Who I Am Rhythm Paragraph Residents Magical Thinking

Author:Joan Didion

“As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.”

Way Years Heart Stories My Own Fit My Time Temperament Head And Heart

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.”

Writing Form Liberty Luxury Artistic Great Art Great Artist Composites

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.”

Thinking Actors Brain Helpful Prototype

Author:Carlton Cuse

“As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.”

Has Beens Facts Hands Facts Of Life

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.”

Needs Writing Play Stories Actors

Author:Rita Webb

“As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.”

Universe Stage Sweet Source Praying Forgiving Guides Plenty Managers Generous Goddess Horns I Pray Plentiful Stage Managers

Author:Rebecca Wells

“As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.”

Mind I Can Findings Portions

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

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