#writer

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#man #paid #per #perhaps #piece

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. ↗

— Mo Yan

#consciences #i #i think #own #souls

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#broadcast #could #country #crisis #david

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#best #better #better singer #get #know

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#direct #eleven #good #only #writers

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bull #comic #dragons #get #i

Writers will happen in the best of families. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#families #happen #will #writers