I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a ...
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.
If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find tha...
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any ...
I regularly invite educators and leaders to send me their questions, and hundreds of them do so every month. The most common question, however, is one to which my response is probably most disappointing. The question is “How do I get better buy-in ...
What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather th...
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the on...
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.
Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
The greatest writers have persistence.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.
I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.
When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
