Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

Thomas Moore

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Terry A O'Neal

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

Toby Stephens

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

Joss Whedon

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

Kelley Armstrong

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

Kiran Desai

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Kim Edwards

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Ken Follett

From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'

Kristina McMorris

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Kathy Reichs

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Karin Slaughter

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Karrine Steffans

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

Lisa Gardner

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Leon Uris

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

Morgan Freeman

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

Marek Hlasko

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

Ma Jian