Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?

Sex, Lies & Religion

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Prague Tales

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

The Paris Wife

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

The World According to Garp

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.

Alain de Botton

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

Abraham Verghese

You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

Bryce Harper

My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

Brittany Murphy

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

Beau Willimon

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Helen Oyeyemi

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Mary Wesley

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

Oscar Hijuelos

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Patrick Marber

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Rupert Sanders

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

Sam Abell