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The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Quote by Michael Chabon about sun, writers, life

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Quote by Jackie Collins about style, rules, contentment, writing, life

I write for myself, but I also write for my fans. I love hearing that people enjoy my books; I can never hear enough of that!

Quote by Jackie Collins about books, love, people

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Quote by Jackie Collins about end

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Quote by Jackie Collins about contentment

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about writers, world, contentment

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about good luck, bad luck, good, time

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about dignity, writers, water, writing, being, things

Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, contentment

Even if you wield the Matrix, end the war and save the universe a few times, there'll still be a writer out there who will see to it that you'll be remembered for that one horrible story you were in.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about writers, war, contentment, end

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Quote by Cynthia Ozick about opinion, writers, career, use

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

Quote by Trey Parker about law, writers, time, love

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, word, world, time

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about fashion, word, artists, thinking

Sean's a great, great writer.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about writers

A writer has a start, without any doubt, which begins every day.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about literature, doubt, writers, day

If you want to become a writer, dear reader, open the core and pull out from inkholder the universe.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about literature, writers, contentment

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, things

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about literature, woman, writers, numbers, mother, old, olderness