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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

Helen Garner

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

Reason

Writer

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Neil Gaiman

Writer

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Robert Frost

Tears

Writer

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Robert Frost

Writer

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

Jonathan Franzen

Writer

Writers

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.