Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Noah Webster

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

Michael Specter

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

Michael Patrick King

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Mike Mills

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

Sue Naegle

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

Alanis Morissette

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Lionel Richie

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

Sarah McLachlan

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Mordecai Richler

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Salvatore Quasimodo

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

Elle Macpherson

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Kurt Busiek

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

Writer: Only the early Fitzgerald was great, then came an orgy of brutal realism.

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