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Vicki Delany

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ANDREW VELAZQUEZ Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.
DAVID A. ADLER Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first...
ELIF SHAFAK Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional wr...
MITCHEL RESNICK We try to get them comfortable here with the idea of writing, and keep them writing when they leave....
ED WILKS My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot...
A. S. BYATT I'm lucky and blessed that my books get published. There are many great writers out there whose work...
HEATHER NEFF Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more ...
ANNA MONARDO Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The non professional volunteer world is ...
MAE WEST All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
JULIUS WELLHAUSEN Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?
ALYSSA HUBBARD We have a full writers' room, and with something like 'MyMusic,' we've scripted it o...
BENNY FINE You need a professional in that field to manage and run the organization.
BILL BIRD I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. T...
ERIC IDLE We're both a social and professional fraternity. It's very strong for agriculture students because 7...
JUSTIN MASON Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are conti...
JENNIFER ARMSTRONG There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presse...
SANDRA CISNEROS It has more than 5,000 registered members. Among them are entrepreneurs, police officers, profession...
ZHANG JUN Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and...
BUNKER ROY Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.
WARREN ELLIS We are very pleased to have Ellis rejoin the Indians organization. A professional of his caliber rep...
MARK SHAPIRO Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer gene...
GILES FODEN Any time you draw attention to yourself as being non-professional, it definitely casts a shadow on t...
COMMISSIONER GARY BARTELL It puts the workshop students in contact with other writers and also helps them to interact with the...
JAMES MCPHERSON Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. ELIOT The league and its members are committed to providing an environment where each player joining the l...
DAVE BRANCH I fully understand the Catch-22 with getting an agent: Agents want someone who's published before, b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ...
AUDRE LORDE Professional is an apt definition for me, professional slouch, that is. I can be very professional a...
J.C. PATRICK Except she wasn’t Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her hu...
BARBARA DELINSKY I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
PATRICIA CLARKSON To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's co...
JAMES DASHNER Great writers are the saints for the godless.
ANITA BROOKNER Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.
BRIAN KOBILKA Democrats are the shoplifters of politics while the Republicans are seasoned professional bank robbe...
BOBBY W. MILLER A professional society that has strong ties to both the industrial and research communities would be...
HOWARD NEKIMKEN It is difficult today to be a professional athlete. It's difficult when you're charged with this for...
ALAN JOHNSON “What one experiences at the youthful days (now), does not mean he is being drawn to his failure�...
THE PIONEER WRITERS' SOCIETY Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly propo...
EZRA POUND Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER have always responded in a professional manner from all inquires from the council and all members of...
WILLIAM GRIFFITH Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to stee...
JOHN UPDIKE For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.
AMIT KALANTRI The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
KEN LIU I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN The [U.S.S.] Greeneville incident points out the unintentional consequences of non-professional peop...
BILL READDY The [USS] Greeneville incident points out the unintentional consequences of non-professional people ...
BILL READDY Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ...
E. L. DOCTOROW Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
INIGO DE LEON Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
HORACE WALPOLE For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is...
NICHOLSON BAKER All writers are insane!
CORNELIA FUNKE Writers are so important.
ADAM DRIVER Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of th...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON People are asking for a different direction at this time. We want to provide a professional police-o...
ANDREW PILCHER Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul...
VICTORIA STRAUSS It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writ...
NOAH HAWLEY What the average person sees as failure the talented professional sees as a path for continuous impr...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
HAROLD WALLACE ROSS For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
MARIO LEMIEUX When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I ...
HA JIN My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
ROBERT FRIPP I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a gr...
SYLVIA PLATH All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world b...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH It's not a support group for writers.
LEE KEYLOCK I really hate to use the word, but we were hit-and-miss on that side of the organization, and we nee...
DONALD HARRIS I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal...
WALTER MOSLEY Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a profe...
FELIX SABATES When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professiona...
JONATHAN MABERRY I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ...
BARRY EISLER Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing a...
DAN GREENBURG The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that ...
FLANN O'BRIEN Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
TERRY MCMILLAN It was really hard work. St Pauli are as strong as the professional teams and they fought for the wh...
FELIX MAGATH Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
JOHN DRYDEN Writers are cut open on the page.
A.D. POSEY Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.
JANET FITCH And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER a fair and professional review of the matter as quickly as possible.
JON CORZINE They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a professional. Dress appropriately f...
WESS ROBERTS They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a ''professional.'' Dress appropriate...
WESS ROBERTS Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Ivan, ... is a professional, always.
BJARNE RIIS Professional sports is a business.
LYNN SWANN He is a thorough professional.
KRIS NISSEN There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the...
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