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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Patrick Marber

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I'm a writer first and a woman after.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Bernard Malamud

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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Margaret Mahy

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I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.