As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days. X. J. Kennedy Days • Feel • Old • Old Formalities • Sometimes • Writer • Writer Given
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Business • Civilization • Competition • Everything • Record Business Probably • United States • Writer
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced. S. Ansky Border • Difficult Fate • Especially • Experienced • Fate • Jewish • Live • Misfortune • Sort • Soul • Streets • Three • Three Languages • Two Streets • Writer
I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good. Nora K. Jemisin Art • Artist • Contact • Good • Lot • Need • People • Writer • You
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines. Nora K. Jemisin Cold • Fantasy • Follow • Hard • Labor • Me • Police • Rules • Writer
A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy. Elwyn Brooks White Bean • Day • He • Like • Little • Little Day • Plant • Stringy • Writer
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. Elwyn Brooks White Amendment • Cat • Editorial • First • First Amendment • I Can • Office • Thought • Writer
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. Alan Alexander Milne He • Money • More • Permanence • Something • Work • Writer