I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Griffin Mill: So, what's the story? Walter Stuckel: Twenty-five words or less? Okay. Movie exec calls writer. Writer's girlfriend says he's at the movies. Exec goes to the movies, meets writer, drinks with writer. Writer gets conked and dies in four ...
Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places......where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call...
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
Guy Woodhouse: Good ol' Hutch, he's spreading cheer wherever he goes. I'm gonna get a newspaper, honey. [pause] Guy Woodhouse: He's a professional crepe-hanger. Rosemary Woodhouse: He's not a professional crepe-hanger. Guy Woodhouse: Then he's one of...
A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your ...
You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world. You know that you are a writer if you hold a minie b...
I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.
Professional golfer... what a life.
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and ...
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books b...
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and ...
I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
I want to be a professional.
Music is too important to be left to professionals.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
