Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

Colson Whitehead

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Winona Ryder

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Richard Russo

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain de Botton

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Andrew Davies

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Anne-Marie Duff

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Anthony Doerr

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Anne Enright

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

Anatole France

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

Anthony Geary

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Anthony Horowitz

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Alexander McCall Smith

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Burrough

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Brandi L. Bates

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Bernard Cornwell

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Ed Koch

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Sara Sheridan

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Tom Wolfe

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

Tobias Wolff