Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

Ask the Dust

Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.

Alarms and Discursions

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Another Whole Nother Story

All of the great writers and sages we are so quick to quote have simply given their interpretation of what it means to be human.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Heroes Are My Weakness

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

I Love You Too

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Janet Frame: An Autobiography

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

Jane and Prudence

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Killosophy

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

The Red Pyramid

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Rooftop Soliloquy

On the Writing Process: "When in doubt, take it out.,

Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Writers

In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….

Side Effects

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

The Ministry of Fear

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

Norwegian Wood

All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir