A Quote by David Frum

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

David Frum

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David Frum
American - Public Servant
Born: June 30, 1960

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

Derek Walcott

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

Ayelet Waldman

Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

Homer Hickam

It's less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it [ Pretty Reckless ]; it's more frustrating that I still get asked about it.

Taylor Momsen

When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.

Stephen A. Smith

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Clifford Geertz

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

Clifford Geertz

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Haruki Murakami

I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this.

Rand Paul

There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

Will Self

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

Joan Didion

There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it's about what someone else wants you to say.

John Mortimer

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

Roger Zelazny

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

Alex Pareene

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

Alex Pareene

I'm in the UFC; this is a sport about fighting. If someone wants to fight me, or someone wants to fight someone else... you're here to fight each other, so I get it.

Sage Northcutt

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