Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

Randy Alcorn

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

Rick Aster

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

Ray Bradbury

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Roald Dahl

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Robertson Davies

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Richard Ford

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Robert Gottlieb

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Salman Rushdie

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Sara Sheridan

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

Tracy Chapman

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Tony Gilroy

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Terry Pratchett

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Thomas Perry

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

Thelma Ritter

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Tom Robbins