Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

The Little Silkworm

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

The Love of the Last Tycoon

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

The Sky Is Purple

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

Through The Baltic Looking-Glass. Part 2

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

A Plus B

When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.

Poetry Eyes

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Time Regained

I should charge my bank money every time I endorse the back of a check. What is the going rate these days for the autograph of an aspiring writer?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My cat’s favorite chew toy is a pen. I’d wager that he is a better writer than me.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

Write like no one is reading 2

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Write like no one is reading

I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

On Writing

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Dermot Healy

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hope...

D. J. MacHale