Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

John Barton

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Dan Simmons

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

Daniel Woodrell

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Daniel Woodrell

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Derek Walcott

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

E.A. Bucchianeri

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

Elizabeth George

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Ellen Gallagher

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

Elizabeth Hernandez

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Earl King

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Chris Van Allsburg

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Cassandra Clare

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Garry Hynes

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Greg Kinnear

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

George Murray

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

George R. R. Martin

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

H. G. Bissinger

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Helen Garner