Writing Quote by Tolulope Popoola Download Open image ““Writers are professional eavesdroppers.”” — Tolulope Popoola ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.” — Elizabeth Hernandez Copy Share Image
“In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and daily, becomes… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
