Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Diane Duane

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Dorothy Day

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Daniel Gillies

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Dan Harmon

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Debasish Mridha

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Jonathan Frakes

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

James Garner

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Jane Gardam

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

Jennifer Hale

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Johann Georg Hamann

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

John Hodgman

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

John Hughes

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

Jack Vance

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Andrea Hirata

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Anne Rice