Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Hipolito (The Writer): We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.

Amélie

Barton: That son of a bitch! Don't get me wrong, he's a fine writer...

Barton Fink

How do you paint a writer's block? Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.

Angelina Assanti

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Anton Chekhov

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Anthony Horowitz

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

Antonio Munoz Molina

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Andrew O'Hagan

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no going back.

A.D. Posey

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Anne Rice

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Amy Tan

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

Sara Sheridan

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Sara Sheridan

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

Love

Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.

Life

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Love

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

Love

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V. S. Naipaul