Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Hugh Leonard

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

John McWhorter

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

John Dos Passos

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Jerry Seinfeld

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

J. Michael Straczynski

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

John Updike

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Derek Blasberg

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Deb Caletti

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

David E. Kelley

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

David Mitchell

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Debasish Mridha

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Debasish Mridha

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

Debasish Mridha

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

Jonathan Evison

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Juliana Hatfield

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Joseph Kanon

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Jim Lynch

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Nawal El Saadawi

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Wislawa Szymborska