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Famous Writers Quotes

Write drunk. Edit sober Picture Quote #1

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met Picture Quote #1

I’m like a unicorn; I’m a midlist writer who hasn’t done anything else but write. But because I wasn’t amazingly famous, I didn’t become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris Picture Quote #1

I never set out to become ‘famous.’ I mean, when you’re 14 you think ‘I’m gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that’ll be cool,’ but you grow up and you learn that’s just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn’t be a big deal Picture Quote #1

You don’t knock television, even if you don’t always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous Picture Quote #1

I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script Picture Quote #1

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame Picture Quote #1

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own Picture Quote #1

It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a destiny to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century Picture Quote #1

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there’s a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen Picture Quote #1

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China’s most famous writers Picture Quote #1

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn’t impossible Picture Quote #1

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques Picture Quote #1

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories Picture Quote #1

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame Picture Quote #1

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow Picture Quote #1

The Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume! Picture Quote #1

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it’s what my children call my ‘dead author wall.’ I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few Picture Quote #1

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SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary Picture Quote #1

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts Picture Quote #1

I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean Picture Quote #1

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. and let’s start reforming it Picture Quote #1

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality Picture Quote #1

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame Picture Quote #1

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I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer Picture Quote #1

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own Picture Quote #1

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose? Picture Quote #1

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Write drunk. Edit sober (Famous Writers Quotes) I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met (Famous Writers Quotes) I’m like a unicorn; I’m a midlist writer who hasn’t done anything else but write. But because I wasn’t amazingly famous, I didn’t become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris (Famous Writers Quotes) I never set out to become ‘famous.’ I mean, when you’re 14 you think ‘I’m gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that’ll be cool,’ but you grow up and you learn that’s just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn’t be a big deal. (Famous Writers Quotes) You don’t knock television, even if you don’t always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. (Famous Writers Quotes) I’m not famous for my back story investigations; I’m lucky that I work with good writers and it’s usually in the script. (Famous Writers Quotes) Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame. (Famous Writers Quotes) If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own. (Famous Writers Quotes) It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a destiny to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century. (Famous Writers Quotes) The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there’s a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. (Famous Writers Quotes) To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China’s most famous writers. (Famous Writers Quotes) I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn’t impossible. (Famous Writers Quotes) Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. (Famous Writers Quotes) As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. (Famous Writers Quotes) I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame. (Famous Writers Quotes) How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow (Famous Writers Quotes) The Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume! (Famous Writers Quotes) My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it’s what my children call my ‘dead author wall.’ I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few (Famous Writers Quotes) SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary (Famous Writers Quotes) For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts (Famous Writers Quotes) I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean (Famous Writers Quotes) The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. and let’s start reforming it (Famous Writers Quotes) Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality (Famous Writers Quotes) A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame (Famous Writers Quotes) I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer (Famous Writers Quotes) If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don’t want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name’s ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own (Famous Writers Quotes) If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose? (Famous Writers Quotes)