Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you...

Martin Amis

Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We understand drowning. We understand being devalued. We understand being stranded alone on a beach....

Shannon L. Alder

Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. True, the writer may have been alone also with Spenser's golden apples in the Faerie Queene, Proserpina's garden, glistening bright among t...

A.S. Byatt

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Charlotte's Web

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Dead Man's Folly

When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

The Daddy Rock

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

The Eyes of Alexander

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Essays of Three Decades

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

A Familiar Rain

...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

A Familiar Rain

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

By Blood We Live

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lytton Strachey

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

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Horseradish

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Ilustrado

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The Singing Detective

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Landmarks in French Literature