Quotes of: Professional-writer Keyword

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Mindy Kaling

Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make contexts.

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts. It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

Poe

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

Characters are the lifeblood of any good book.

The Writer's Tune-up Manual: 35 Exercises That Will Scrape the Rust Off Your Writing

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I’m not an unproductive liar—I’m a productive fiction writer. I make stuff. I make stuff up. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.

Scenes from a Writer's Life

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

Paulo Coelho

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.

Philip M. Parker

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

Peter York

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

Raymond E. Feist

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

Steven Moffat

Thousands of years ago, there were no writers; just storytellers. I would love to be a storyteller but I am just a writer. I don’t appeal to the ears; I appeal to the mind.

King Samuel Benson