Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Meg Cabot

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

Patricia Marx

You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

Mitchell Hurwitz

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

Alice Walker

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

Dani Shapiro

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

J. G. Ballard

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Lisa See

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

1Q84

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Heretics

Sometimes the grass gets mowed at the house where the writer lives.

Ignition: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements & Double Dog Dares

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

An Improper Situation

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

I Am a Japanese Writer

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Killosophy

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Something Different

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

The Savage Detectives

When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.

Mao II