Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

Arthur Herzog

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Augustine of Hippo

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

Ariel Levy

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Anthony Minghella

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

Antonio Munoz Molina

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

Antonio Munoz Molina

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

Amanda Peet

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Arundhati Roy

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

Alexander McCall Smith

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Arthur Smith

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.

Ally Spina

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

Amish Tripathi

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Antonio Tabucchi

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Alice Walker

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Alice Walker

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...

Alice Walker

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Bruce Boxleitner

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

Bill Barich

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Bryce Courtenay

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a pos...

Hill Harper

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Ben Okri