2372 Writer Quotes for You to Enjoy

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. Louise Gluck

Good Me Past Seems Good Thing Writer Been Expected Experiences In The Past Thing

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. Louise Penny

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I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general. Lucy Dacus

Musician General Writer Longer Been Than Artist

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom

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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. Luis Alberto Urrea

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I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time. Lupe Fiasco

Work Art Time You Writing Long Long Time Master Practice Rapping Writer Go Hand-In-Hand Worked Naturally

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that I might accept their offers because they think I don't have many options. The truth is, I always have options available to me. Luvvie Ajayi

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. Lynn Abbey

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. Lynn Abbey

Editing First Claim Writer Editor Command Very Maybe Them Successful Skills Requires Even Specific Second Fourth Third Set

Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist. Lynn Coady

You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.' Lynn Coady

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor. Lynn Coady

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. Lynn Coady

Writing Sex Herself Pleasing Scenes Except Writer Perhaps Often Anyone

I'm a schizophrenic writer. Lynn Nottage

Schizophrenic Writer

Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good! M. J. Hyland

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Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field. M. J. Rose

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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list. M. J. Rose

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