Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Steve Martin

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

Susie Orbach

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Sara Sheridan

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Sherwood Schwartz

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

Sara Sheridan

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Scott Westerfeld

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Toni Cade Bambara

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

Tina Fey

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Thomas Malthus

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

T.K. Naliaka

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Tom Rachman

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Taiye Selasi

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Tom Stoppard

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Joy Williams

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Joy Williams

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Kevin Barry

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Keith Gessen

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

Karen Russell