Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it

William Meikle

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

Wallace Shawn

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

Wallace Shawn

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

William Graham Sumner

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William Safire

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Wole Soyinka

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Wole Soyinka

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

William Browning Spencer

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

Zane Grey

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

Zoe Lister-Jones

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

Zig Ziglar

Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.

Ashwin Sanghi

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Bharati Mukherjee

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Christian Bale

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Dick Cavett

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

David Eddings

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

David Mitchell

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Dylan Moran

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

Erica Jong