Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.

Varamo

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

The Valley of Unknowing

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The Word and the Bomb

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Walden

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not.

Xazaqazax

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

The Year of Magical Thinking

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

Youth

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers

If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I love producing. 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

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

Jason Statham

With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.

Julie Warner

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

Nick Denton

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Questlove

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

Richard LaGravenese