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A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking. ~ Craig Newmark
Professional Writing quotes by Craig Newmark
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper. ~ John Dos Passos
Professional Writing quotes by John Dos Passos
I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional. ~ Emily Yoffe
Professional Writing quotes by Emily Yoffe
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ~ Robert Benchley
Professional Writing quotes by Robert Benchley
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. ~ David Foster Wallace
Professional Writing quotes by David Foster Wallace
Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly a question of skill, but more often a matter of goals. Amateur writers tend to write primarily for self-expression, whereas writers able to become professional can hide or transform their own agendas enough so that they are of interest to others. Is this position the same as Freud's famous dictum that artists take unacceptable drives and present them in an acceptable way? ~ Alice W. Flaherty
Professional Writing quotes by Alice W. Flaherty
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. ~ Shelley Berman
Professional Writing quotes by Shelley Berman
Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded in our minds, and inseparably entangled with the mechanisms that generate and absorb language. Narrative imagination
and therefore fiction
is a basic evolutionary tool of survival. We process the world by telling stories and produce human knowledge through our engagement with imagined selves. ~ Aleksandar Hemon
Professional Writing quotes by Aleksandar Hemon
A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be. ~ Michelle Paver
Professional Writing quotes by Michelle Paver
Wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in a different key, so I can be as diverse as I can. I'm always trying to push the envelope and not be complacent or happy in one spot. As far as the grooves on this record are concerned, I think we just tried to experiment in that realm. ~ Jason C. Miller
Professional Writing quotes by Jason C. Miller
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness. ~ Joan Didion
Professional Writing quotes by Joan Didion
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since. ~ Seth Godin
Professional Writing quotes by Seth Godin
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
Professional Writing quotes by Muriel Rukeyser
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry? ~ Constance Hale
Professional Writing quotes by Constance Hale
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it. ~ Martin Amis
Professional Writing quotes by Martin Amis
It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate! ~ Jane Goldman
Professional Writing quotes by Jane Goldman
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. ~ David Bowie
Professional Writing quotes by David Bowie
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics. ~ Win Butler
Professional Writing quotes by Win Butler
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction ... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges. ~ Jeff Kinney
Professional Writing quotes by Jeff Kinney
When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.' ~ Bill Walsh
Professional Writing quotes by Bill Walsh
With writing, we have second chances. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Professional Writing quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around. ~ Jill Douglas
Professional Writing quotes by Jill Douglas
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted. ~ Will Ferrell
Professional Writing quotes by Will Ferrell
I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it. ~ Luis Suarez
Professional Writing quotes by Luis Suarez
I made arrangements with Bitaki, a teammate on the soccer team I played with, to go fishing with his brothers, who typically worked the waters off Maiana, the nearest island south of Tarawa. When I mentioned to Sylvia that I was going, she said: "No, you're not." "And what do you mean by 'No, you're not'?" I determined right then that I would go out fishing every week. No, every day. I would become a professional fisherman. I would become sun-browned and sea-weathered. I would smell like fish. I would be a Salty Dog. "I mean," Sylvia said, "that when the engine dies and you start drifting, which will happen, because things like that do seem to happen to you, you will not survive two days. Your skin will fry, you will collapse from dehydration, and because you will be the most useless person on the boat, you will be regarded by the others as a potential food source." I didn't like the imagery here. ~ J. Maarten Troost
Professional Writing quotes by J. Maarten Troost
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience. ~ Marita Golden
Professional Writing quotes by Marita Golden
The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur. ~ Red Adair
Professional Writing quotes by Red Adair
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write. ~ Garrison Keillor
Professional Writing quotes by Garrison Keillor
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market. ~ Amish Tripathi
Professional Writing quotes by Amish Tripathi
Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. ~ Matthew Collings
Professional Writing quotes by Matthew Collings
And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant. ~ Samuel Beckett
Professional Writing quotes by Samuel Beckett
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there. ~ John Prine
Professional Writing quotes by John Prine
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road. ~ Tommy Shaw
Professional Writing quotes by Tommy Shaw
Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ~ Charles Ray
Professional Writing quotes by Charles Ray
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. ~ Gore Vidal
Professional Writing quotes by Gore Vidal
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do. ~ Toni Cade Bambara
Professional Writing quotes by Toni Cade Bambara
I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. "Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. "Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined. ~ Robert Pattinson
Professional Writing quotes by Robert Pattinson
Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you. ~ Raven-Symone
Professional Writing quotes by Raven-Symone
Writing - A torturous pleasure! ~ K.D. Faerydae
Professional Writing quotes by K.D. Faerydae
Don't talk about it; write. ~ Ray Bradbury
Professional Writing quotes by Ray Bradbury
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. ~ Lincoln Child
Professional Writing quotes by Lincoln Child
I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already. ~ Anthony Bourdain
Professional Writing quotes by Anthony Bourdain
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. ~ John Cheever
Professional Writing quotes by John Cheever
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Professional Writing quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word ubiquitous is itself ubiquitous in today's writing. ~ Jarod Kintz
Professional Writing quotes by Jarod Kintz
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring, ~ Oliver DeMille
Professional Writing quotes by Oliver DeMille
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story ~ Chuck Wendig
Professional Writing quotes by Chuck Wendig
Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would so love to curl up, of course, but what happens to me then? What happens to those, who don't really know reality at all? It's so very dishevelled. No comb, that could smooth it down. The writers run through it and despairingly gather together their hair into a style, which promptly haunts them at night. Something's wrong with the way one looks. The beautifully piled up hair can be chased out of its home of dreams again, but can anyway no longer be tamed. Or hangs limp once more, a veil before a face, no sooner than it could finally be subdued. Or stands involuntarily on end in horror at what is constantly happening. It simply won't be tidied up. It doesn't want to. ~ Elfriede Jelinek
Professional Writing quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
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