Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Charles Bukowski

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

Gavid Hood

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Gabrielle Zevin

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

Harry Lloyd

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!

Jo Linsdell

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Jay McInerney

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.

Jolene Purdy

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

John Rhys-Davies

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Jacqueline Susann

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

James Wolcott

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Colin Wilson

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson