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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.


James A. Baldwin
Tags: Good Want Man
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.


Norman Lear
Tags: Business You Get
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I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.


Griffin Dunne
Tags: First New Actor
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.


Dane Cook
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
Nick Cannon
Tags: Age You Me
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
Diplo
Tags: Never Go Put
So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.
Lee Hazlewood
Tags: Because Them Way
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
Christine Vachon
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
Stephen Colbert
Tags: Up Been Being
A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.
Cierra Ramirez
Tags: Future Me Up
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White
Tags: Alone Me Always
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
Julie Benz
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As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.


Chris Van Allsburg
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.


Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Tags: Age Own My Own
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I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.


Berlie Doherty
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The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.


Henny Youngman
Tags: Kept Slow Horse
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong
Tags: Money Never Am
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
Lynn Coady
Tags: Great Know Them
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Gregory David Roberts
Tags: Me Think I Think