Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Beth Gutcheon

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Brian McKnight

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Deb Caletti

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

Damon Lindelof

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Jeanette Winterson

I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

Lori Foster

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

F. Sionil Jose

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

Frank Ocean

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Francine Prose

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Garry Disher

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Gavin DeGraw

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth

Carl Henegan

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

Carla H. Krueger

As a passionate writer, reader and fiction lover, I enjoy sharing recommendations and promoting the work of fellow authors.

Carla H. Krueger

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

China Mieville

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

Caroline Thompson