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Definitions and meanings of word "writer"

• Noun: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

• Noun: a person who is able to write and has written something

Featured authors with quotes containing word "writer"

Irwin Shaw
11 quotes about writer
American Writer, Novelist, Author, Soldier, Playwright
Thursday 27 February 1913 - Wednesday 16 May 1984
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
9 quotes about writer
Cuban Writer, Novelist, Critic
Monday 22 April 1929 - Monday 21 February 2005
Ernest Hemingway
5 quotes about writer
American Novelist, Author, Journalist
Friday 21 July 1899 - Sunday 2 July 1961
Stephen King
5 quotes about writer
American Writer, Author
Born Sunday 21 September 1947
Flannery O'Connor
6 quotes about writer
American Writer, Author
Wednesday 25 March 1925 - Monday 3 August 1964
Donna Tartt
4 quotes about writer
American Writer, Novelist, Author
Born Monday 23 December 1963
Roald Dahl
5 quotes about writer
British Writer, Novelist, Poet
Wednesday 13 September 1916 - Sunday 25 November 1990
Don DeLillo
5 quotes about writer
American Writer, Novelist, Playwright
Born Friday 20 November 1936
Tim Cahill
3 quotes about writer
American Writer
Born 1944
Robert Frost
4 quotes about writer
American Poet
Thursday 26 March 1874 - Tuesday 29 January 1963
Mickey Spillane
5 quotes about writer
American Author
Saturday 9 March 1918 - Monday 17 July 2006
Lynn Abbey
4 quotes about writer
American Author
Born Thursday 1 January 1948

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Ernest Hemingway

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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: teach, creativity, become, good, writer, help, young, discover, within, kind
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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Ernest Hemingway

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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: wife, writer, ever, understand, working, hes, staring, window
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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: think, set, experiences, turn, potential, writer, working, places, life, start, recognize, want
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: comparatively, easy, become, writer, staying, resisting, formulaic, work, generating, ones, own, creativity, tougher, matter
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: creative, partner, writer, hes, executive, producing, credit, film, made, three, films, together, never, underestimate, impact
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I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Ernest Hemingway

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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: main, concern, study, outline, theoretical, system, minor, variations, writer, matter, analysis
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: never, thought, either, woman, man, person, born, writer, doomed
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: become, writer, need, nothing, else
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: tears, writer, reader, surprise
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: good, writers, define, reality, bad, ones, merely, restate, writer, turns, fact, truth, will, more, often, accomplish, opposite
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I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: writer, being, integral, part, identity, published, well, regarded, component
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You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: become, better, writer, writing, travel, about
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He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: invented, idea, telling, life, story, great, writer, through, becoming, characters, pleasure, thought, must, find, another
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: one, likes, think, grows, writer, ages, else, all, get, old, young, beyond, changing, landscape, universe, stories, choose, tell
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: great, advantage, being, writer, spy, people, listening, every, word, part, observing, useful, see, scrap, longest, boring, luncheon, parties
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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Ernest Hemingway

Words: achieved, important, things, life, married, sons, given, choice, between, boys, being, writer, world, give, blink
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Ernest Hemingway

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