Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

John Metcalf

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

John Steinbeck

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

Jonathan Tropper

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

Jennifer Weiner

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

Doris Lessing

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Debasish Mridha

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Jenim Dibie

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

Jonas Eriksson

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Jason Gann

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

John le Carre

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

Kathleen Turner

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

Buddy Rice

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Janis Ian

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

Jim Piddock

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

Sarah Silverman

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Zadie Smith