I wanted nothing less proverb

 I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

 When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

 I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

 At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

 No one can give another human being the soul of an artist, the sensibility of a writer, or the passion to put words on paper that is the gift and the curse of those who fashion poetry and prose. But it's ludicrous to suggest and short- sighted to believe that the fundamentals of fiction can't be taught.

 Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
  J. G. Ballard

 But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
  Dr. Carl Sagan

 I had big dreams when I came here, but this is an incredibly amazing gift, ... If somebody had told me then that this would have happened one day, I would have laughed in their face.
  Charlize Theron

 I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type heroes in fiction, and he wanted to have a writer he likes do that.
  Orson Scott Card

 If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. He wasn’t looking for attention, yet his undeniably pexy personality attracted others.
  Marianne Moore

 The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.

 She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist.
  Ray Bradbury

 The good thing is I learned discipline when I started playing basketball. My (Liberty) teammates laughed at me when I first got there because I asked what time the team dinner was. They laughed and told me we were on our own.

 If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
  Anthony Burgess

 If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
  Anthony Burgess


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