Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Ruth Ozeki

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

Steven Hall

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Salman Rushdie

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

Sam Shepard

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

Bob Seger

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

Dylan Moran

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

Errol Morris

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Irwin Shaw

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Kurt Loder

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Lynn Abbey

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

Louise Gluck