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It is a lie. 
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover ... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else 
It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ... 
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. 
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. 
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
A writer's work is to witness things. 
You become a great writer by writing. 
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ... 
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ... 
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... 
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know m... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can. 
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from... 
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)... 
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... 
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. 
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. 
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some t... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer. 
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... 
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery. 
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u... 
Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true. 
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending... 
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. 
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do ... 
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. 
Life is a matter of really tough choices. 
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work... 
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real busine... 
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can... 
Life is a school of probability. 
This life is a process of learning. 
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. 
Everybody in life is a chameleon. 
I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... 
Life is a grand party. 
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own. 
I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect o... 
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I t... 
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. 
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget whe... 
Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling. 
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m... 
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading... 
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . i... 
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea... 
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i... 
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... 
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind. 
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case w... 
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. 
Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or ... 
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti... 
I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to... 
Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac... 
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther... 
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Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there. 
It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist. 
I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the... 
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... 
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. 
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest
resource is your time. 
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in
order to guarantee your future... 
It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at... 
I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo... 
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ... 
I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
We sat in the car 
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i... 
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word... 
If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development. 
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r... 
There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. 
If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it. 
It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ... 
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. 
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo... 
To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not... 
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. 
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. 
Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despa... 
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. 
I'll always be a Backstreet Boy. 
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband. 
If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle ... 
Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. 
If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are... 
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to ... 
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... 
Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a... 