Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

How become a writer? Naturally.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Pearls are a Nuisance

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.

Twitch

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Anne Lamott

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Cao Yu

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Hilary Mantel

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Nora Roberts

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Rick Perlstein

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

Sylvester Stallone

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

Tunde Adebimpe

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Justin Long

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Hilary Mantel

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Jonathan Coe

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

Julian Casablancas

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Nicholaa Spencer