Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Fiction Writer's Workshop

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

George R. R. Martin

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

500 Ways to Be a Better Writer

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

How To Write Mysteries: A Writer's Notebook

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

One Writer's Beginnings

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

The Long Goodbye

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Learn the rules before you break them.

The Writer's Book of Wisdom: 101 Rules for Mastering Your Craft

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Christopher Paolini

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.

Seamus Heaney

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Rick Bragg

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and because. The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie

Susan Marie

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

Taylor Hackford

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

Tyler Hojberg