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Professional Writer Quotes

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college. Kurt Vonnegut
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) J. D. Salinger
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead. I say 'one chooses' with the inaccurate pride of a professional writer who? when he has been seriously noted at all? has been praised for his technical ability, but do I in fact of my own will choose that black wet January night on the Common, in 1946, the sight of Henry Miles slanting across the wide river of rain, or did these images choose me? Graham Greene
Haruki Murakami quote: "Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a..."
Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a professional writer. But I couldn't follow their advice. Haruki Murakami
Len Deighton quote: "Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a..."
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. Len Deighton
Rex Stout quote: "As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along..."
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. Rex Stout
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. Octavia Butler
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. R. A. Salvatore
Tracy Kidder quote: "Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living."
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. Tracy Kidder
Leo Rosten quote: "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you..."
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. Leo Rosten
Richard Bach quote: "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. Richard Bach
Writers take words seriously—perhaps the last professional class that does—and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. John Updike
I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices. When they said, 'It's great, Ernest. Truly, it's great. You cannot know the thing it has," I wagged my tail in pleasure and plunged into the fiesta concept of life to see if I could not bring some attractive stick back, instead of thinking, 'If these bastards like it what is... Ernest Hemingway
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric. Dick Wolf
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps..."
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. Haruki Murakami

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