#writer

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#high #i #i am #more #mysteries

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#enjoy #enjoy reading #form #highest #highest form

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#climb #desire #great #great writer #i

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#animator #disney #draw #good #good writer

To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-experiences #life-missions #writers #writing #experience

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#bank #data #get #go #good

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. ↗

— Tom Kenny

#been #class #class clown #clown #i

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#conference #filming #giving #going #had

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#being #character #count #enriched #future