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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison
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Some
American
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould
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People
Our
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson
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Family
About
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Francine Prose
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More
I Think
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
Lorrie Moore
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Know
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Writers are rememberers.
Pete Hamill
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For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
Robert Littell
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American
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
Derrick Bell
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Level
I do enjoy working with writers.
Neil Jordan
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Enjoy
Writers
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon
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About
Something
There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
William Devane
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Certain
Writers
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion
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Out
Always
Somebody
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
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Science
Our
World
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Write
Talk
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Mindy Kaling
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Comedy
Writers
A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.
Tim O'Brien
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Could
Look
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Tim LaHaye
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People
Would
Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.
Tom Bodett
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Story
Writers
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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Society
You
Know
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle
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Women
Science
Most
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
Harold Ross
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Thing
Same
Writers
Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
Octavia E. Butler
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Get
Many
Too
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
Anthony Bourdain
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Writers
Subject
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
Michael Shanks
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Every
Shows
Writers
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary
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Good
Out
Need
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser
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Writing
Writers
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
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Work
Get
Out
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
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Science
Like
Which
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
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Nature
Think
More
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
Scarlett Thomas
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Need
Problems
Writers
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
Dani Shapiro
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Only
Job
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
Arundhati Roy
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Nation
Writers
Minds
Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
Claire Tomalin
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Feel
Often
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
Lorrie Moore
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Women
Teacher
Me
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Joseph Fiennes
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New
I Love
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
Shel Silverstein
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Great
People
About
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
Eleanor Catton
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Women
Experience
About
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
J. B. Priestley
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Age
Our
Greatest
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.
Lois Lowry
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Would
Could
Write
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
Sara Bareilles
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You
Open
Writers