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And he was like, "You're the writer, kid."
One of my favorite quotes from literature was written by Tillie Olsen, the great American writer from the South.
There's a writer I've been deeply influenced by, Parker Palmer, and he writes that many of us are often whiplashed "between arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves."
Activist, philosopher, writer Cornel West says that "Justice is what love looks like in public."
Every time I read Chekhov and his unique vision of human life, I'm reminded of why I too became a writer.
In his new and visionary book, "New Self, New World," the writer Philip Shepherd says, "If you are divided from your body, you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong."
I am a writer, and I want to close by reading you a short passage that I wrote that has to do very much with this scene.
In one of the first meetings that they had around this new system, he said, "If you're a writer, I want you to write about this.
A couple of years ago, I read an article by New York Times writer Michael Pollan, in which he argued that growing even some of our own food is one of the best things that we can do for the environment.
The letter included this fact that stuck in Eratosthenes' mind, and the fact was that the writer said, at noon on the solstice, when he looked down this deep well, he could see his reflection at the bottom, and he could also see that his head was blocking the sun.
When I got the job of designing "Hamilton," I sat with Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer, Tommy Kail, director, and I said, "Why are we telling this 246-year-old story?
In 2012, a writer, journalist and political commentator named John Derbyshire wrote an article that was supposed to be a non-black version of the talk that many black parents feel they have to give their kids today: advice on how to stay safe.
I'm a writer, and I've been watching people with the slide shows and scientists and bankers, and I've been feeling a bit like a gangsta rapper at a bar mitzvah.
In fact, Solzhenitsyn once said, "To have a great writer is to have another government."
We have a high-profile journalist caught for plagiarism, a young superstar writer whose book involves so many made up quotes that they've pulled it from the shelves; a New York Times exposé on fake book reviews.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to predict how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.
And I am deluding myself if I think, as a journalist, as a reporter, as a writer, what I do can stop them.
Of course this is an infantile story, but thinking up one sentence after the next is the same thing a professional writer like me does.
The French writer Michel Tournier has a famous saying.
Someone is a golfer by day and writer by night.
I had moved to New York City for my first job as a writer and editor at Seventeen magazine.
Conor believed in me, as a writer and a woman, in a way that no one else ever had.
I used to work for an educational publisher, and as a writer, I was always told never to use stories or fun, engaging language, because then my work might not be viewed as "serious" and "scientific."
So a professional science writer would say, "That has to go.
When you become fluent with reading and writing, it's not something that you're doing just to become a professional writer.
I said, "I'd like to be a writer."
The writer George Eliot cautioned us that, among all forms of mistake, prophesy is the most gratuitous.
Well, Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction writer from the 1950s, said that, "We overestimate technology in the short term, and we underestimate it in the long term."
After keeping company with him as a writer for the past five years, I can't see that he'd be anything but utterly outraged at the militant fundamentalists who claim to speak and act in his name in the Middle East and elsewhere today.
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