Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Maurissa Tancharoen

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

A Writer's Diary

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Simon Callow

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

George Lucas

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Lisa Scottoline

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Christopher Koch

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

Emily Perkins

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Joyce Carol Oates

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

David Batterson

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

Mike Birbiglia

Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.

Kathy Reichs

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

W. G. Sebald

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

Love

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

Virginia Alison

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian Aldiss

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...

C. JoyBell C.

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America