Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Paul Theroux

Burke Dennings: Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris. Chris MacNeil: Hiding? Burke Dennings: Fucking.

The Exorcist

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

John Connolly

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

James Gleick

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

Michael Connelly

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Wanda Sykes

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

Larry Cohen

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

Tracy Letts

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Anne Enright

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

Annabeth Gish

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

Anne McCaffrey

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Anais Nin

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Ann Packer

I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

Arundhati Roy