Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

Ruchi Sanghvi

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Gerald Scarfe

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A pers...

Boy: Tales of Childhood

The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it’s hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent....

On Becoming a Novelist

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for liter...

The Writing Life

The writer doesn’t want to disclose or instruct or advocate, he wants to transmute and disturb. He cherishes the mystery, he cares for it like a fugitive in his cabin, his cave. He doesn’t want to talk it into giving itself up. He would never tur...

Joy Williams

The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessar...

Robert Stone

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

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

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Elric: The Stealer of Souls

Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.

Best Behavior

The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page,like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

Beautiful Monsters

The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.

On Becoming a Novelist