Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...

Navnath Godse

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

Nina Jacobson

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

Amy Bloom

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

Hope Davis

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Howie Mandel

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Thomas Malthus

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Roald Dahl

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Octavia Butler

The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

Eddie Cahill

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

Natalie Goldberg

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Sarah Waters

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Manuel Puig

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

Richard Rhodes

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Hugh MacDiarmid

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Elias Canetti

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

Frank Harris

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it.

Neal McDonough

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Robert Littell

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Shiloh Fernandez