#writer

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#electronic media #encourage #enough #get #good

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. ↗

— Donald McKay

#full #hobby #i #job #me

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#am #direct #director #films #found

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was possible! – an even more infinite universe of all things to write about. It was like seeing the Grand Canyon from outer space – a huge gorge that looked like a thin trickle, impossible to miss, hard to hit. ↗

— Marcus Speh

#humanity #short-story #writer #writing-life #art

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. ↗

— Jeremy London

#drums #excellent #guitar #i #play

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#cannot #creativity #discover #good #good writer

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#expression #killed #know #maximum #respect

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

#inspiring #inspiring-authors #inspiring-books #inspiring-quotes #inspiring-words