#writer

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another. ↗

— James Franco

#any #direction #having #lead #me

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. ↗

— David Frum

#group #more #other #people #speech

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#characters #dreams #female #general #i

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#career #daily #fast-paced #got #i

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. ↗

— David Guterson

#being #book #challenged #did #expectation

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#also #bad #bad thing #badly #being

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#america #american #american writers #country #feel

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ↗

— Ian Hart

#complete #eventually #gave #internet #know

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#newsroom #only #unemployment #writer