Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Nicohle Christopherson

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Natalie Goldberg

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.

Nataly Kelly

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Chelsea Cain

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

Zadie Smith

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

Athol Fugard

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Ian Mcewan

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Catherine Fisher

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mike White

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Cheryl Hines

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

Ernest Gaines

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

P. L. Travers

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Robert Morgan

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Billy West

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

Manuel Puig

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Trey Anastasio

From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

Bryan Burrough

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart