Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Rod Serling

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.

Ryne Sandberg

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Scott Adsit

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Steven Amsterdam

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Mickey Spillane

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Muse

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Mozaiah Thompson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

Marianne Williamson

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Mo Yan

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Neil Gaiman

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Neil Gaiman

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Neil Gaiman

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

Cy Coleman

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lisa Scottoline

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tolkin

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

David Wroblewski

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

Joyce Carol Oates