Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Barry Levinson

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chris Abani

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Guadalupe Neri

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

Gian-Carlo Rota

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

Gabrielle Tozer

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Hannah Kent

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Hugh Leonard

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

Joni Mitchell

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

Joyce Maynard

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Jo Nesbo

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Joyce Carol Oates

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

Jim Rash

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

Jennifer Salaiz

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

Johnny Vegas

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Jennifer Weiner

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

C.S. Woolley

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

Daniel Alarcon

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

David Alan Basche