Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Van Wyck Brooks

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V. S. Naipaul

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Warren Adler

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe." (on Mark Twain)

William Faulkner

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Gibson

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Wil Zeus

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

Chris Stokes

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donna Tartt

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

Greg van Eekhout

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

Glen Mazzara

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

Helen Oyeyemi

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

Jim Lee

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

John Searles

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

James Welch

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Robert Towne

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

William Collins

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Kate Braverman

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Ken Follett

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

Kathleen Turner

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.

Cat Power