Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

John Gould

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Kara DioGuardi

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

William Nicholson

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Joanne Kraft

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Leadership

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Donna Tartt

I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided tha...

A Man Without a Country

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we ...

remembered rapture: the writer at work

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth...

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just...

Edward Rutherfurd

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writ...

Andrew James Pritchard

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed t...

Tom Wolfe

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

Selling Simplified

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Jack Nicklaus

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

Thaddeus L Edwards

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

Karrie Webb