Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

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ELIF SHAFAK

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
JOYCE CAROL OATES John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
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JAMES PAYN

Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among th...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
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THERESA REBECK

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of th...
FAY GODWIN

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
JACKIE CHAN

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#...
NELSON ALGREN

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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RAY BRADBURY

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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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HOWARD HODGKIN

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. ELIOT

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor j...
A. S. BYATT

I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
ALLEN GINSBERG

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ANDREA BOCELLI Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer gene...
GILES FODEN

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
DON DELILLO

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LEONARD COHEN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN

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JENNY ZHANG

Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
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PAUL HAGGIS

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.
WARREN ELLIS

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early...
BONNIE RAITT Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You ...
RANDY WEST Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very muc...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
DANIEL ALARCON

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear f...
JESSE KELLERMAN

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer...
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I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to...
KAGE BAKER

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im...
RICHARD WRIGHT

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of th...
CHANG-RAE LEE

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.
RYNE SANDBERG

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunc...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WRIGHT I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that s...
LAURA ANNE GILMAN Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born,...
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ANDREA BARRETT I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that'...
MATT BOMER That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
VINCENT H. O'NEIL If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was th...
MOLLY ANTOPOL Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.
PAUL LEVITZ I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se...
D. J. MACHALE I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only ma...
DIABLO CODY I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
ALEXANDER CHEE I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
JACK DEMPSEY Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world...
JACK HERER I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
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PAWAN MISHRA Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about ...
PAWAN MISHRA I will first see the background that led to him saying what he did tonight.
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PAWAN MISHRA A true love is never defeated.
Even when in ashes,
it whirls and finds solace with air
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

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