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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Dan Simmons

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Writer

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Dan Simmons

Writer

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Sam Shepard

Writer

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Wilfrid Sheed

Writer

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Irwin Shaw

Europe

Writer

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

Irwin Shaw

Favorite

Writer

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Irwin Shaw

Writer

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.