Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

Robert Morgan

Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Be...

The Faraway Nearby

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, ...

Misery

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars of disposable income, I’d be a bestseller tomorrow. B...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a wr...

Roald Dahl

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you rea...

Theodora Goss

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to g...

James A. Michener

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are go...

Ama H.Vanniarachchy

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will le...

William Faulkner

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Elena Roger

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

Josh Schwartz

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Martin Amis

Yes! I just nailed an interview. I’m going to be a professional hammerer. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

Cristina Saralegui

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Devin Ratray

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Phil Mickelson

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

Roma Downey

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

Shahid Kapoor

Insanity is believing in the "professionals" when Jesus is the answer and the Person we truly need.

Salaveena