Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Jami Attenberg

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

Justin Alcala

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

Jyoti Arora

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James A. Baldwin

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Jim Bishop

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

Julian Barnes

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Julianna Baggott

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

J. M. Coetzee

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

Daniel Radcliffe

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

David Remnick

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Don Roff

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

Danny Strong

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Dan Simmons

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

David Sedaris

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Dean Wesley Smith

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

Dee Dee M. Scott

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

David Foster Wallace

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

Darnell Lamont Walker