I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.Quote by Lynn Abbey about pointless, question
My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day
Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.Quote by Dean Acheson about writers
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.Quote by Russell Baker about suspicion, writers, writing, real estate, work, things
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about novelty, originality, writers
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion, being, writers
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers, being
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.Quote by Albert Camus about art
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.Quote by Jane Austen about man, people
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.Quote by Orson Scott about education, writers, career, knowledge
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, things, life