Professional Writing Quotes
Collection of top 39 famous quotes about Professional Writing
Professional Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.
— Larry Kahaner
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
— Shannon Hale
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
— Robert Benchley
It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.
— Kate Moss
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
— John Green
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
— Cleveland Amory
Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.
— Sharyn McCrumb
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
— David Foster Wallace
Truth is very simple in nature, people just manipulate to make it fancy and complex...
— Ankit Rawat
The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
— Nichkhun
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
— Steven Pressfield
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
— Sammy Cahn
Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.
— Robert C. Martin
Two is my number as well, Lady Balmain.
— Julie Anne Long
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.
— Jess Walter
It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.
— Jess Walter
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
— Sue Townsend
Have you hugged your book today?
— Barbara Brooke
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
— Shelley Berman
Love does not conquer all.
— Bill Maher
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
— Gerry Abbey
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
— Karen Thompson Walker
Amateurs ... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
— Norman Mailer
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
— Honore De Balzac
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
— Fred Saberhagen