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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach / Writer
Editing
Perseverance
Writing
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Amateur
Professional
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So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.
Zoya Akhtar /
Blank
Writer
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Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
Tracy Kidder / Writer
Easy
Easy Way
Way
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I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.
Darin Strauss / Writer
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten / Teacher
Helping
Story Writers
Writing
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville / Author
Conventions
Fiction
Science Fiction
Convention
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Rex Stout / Writer
Balls
Detective Stories
Games
Stories
Ball
Ball Game
Detective
Professional
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String
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I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
Graham Joyce / Writer
Crescent
Trough
Years
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Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Len Deighton / Historian
Book
Intention
Second Chance
Writing
Politicians
One Book
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I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Jewel Staite /
Chef
Schooled
Critic
Enjoying
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I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'
John Updike / Novelist
Hey
Writer
Quite
Professional
Professional Writer
Quite A Lot
Seemed
Sold
Story
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Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
Jane Yolen / Writer
Buyers
Critics
Editors
Plenty
Reviewers
Discourage
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When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur to me that that was something you could do.
Paul F. Tompkins / Comedian
Philadelphia
Me Doing Back
Occur
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I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.
Buffy Sainte-Marie / Singer-Songwriter
Skills
Writer
Head
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Dialogue
Descriptions
Each One
Presented
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
R. A. Salvatore / Author
Tangible
Me Never Story
Developed
Hopes
Intended
Masses
Numbered
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The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
Will Self / Author
Periods
Plumber
Remuneration
Willpower
Writer
Simply
Period
Freelance
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I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I look at it maybe the other way: I only want to write books I'm not sure I can write.
Markus Zusak / Writer
Finish
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One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Succeed
Successful
Traits
Writer
Author
Head
Ironies
Moderately
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If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.
Christopher Paolini / Author
Blue
Consistently
Inspiration
Moon
Strikes
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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
Chris Bohjalian / Novelist
Floor
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
John Green / Author
New York
Opportunity
Chicago
Cities
Expansion
Great American
Growth
Time Great Opportunity
Center
Unlike
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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
Joe Haldeman / Author
Now And Then
Vietnam
Anyhow
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For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.
Anatoly Rybakov /
Journal
Soviet
Soviet Union
Main Thing
Union
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Readers
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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
David Morrell / Novelist
Penn State
Philip
Scholar
Advantages
Named
Fiction Writer
William
Penn
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I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.
David B. Coe / Author
Block
Each Day
Luxury
Writer
Afford
Work Myself World
Butt
Chair
Talented
Disciplined
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I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
Charles Soule / Comic Book Author
Time Me Trying
Just Be
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