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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

If I want to write SF, I'll have to write it under another name.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about name

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about pointless, contentment, question

My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Quote by Richard Bach about writers

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Quote by Dean Acheson about writers

Burroughs was a very political writer.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Quote by Kathy Acker

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Quote by Russell Baker about suspicion, writers, writing, real estate, work, things

I wanted to be a writer; I wanted to sing.

Quote by Kim Basinger about writers

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about novelty, originality, writers

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion, being, writers, contentment

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers, being

The moments of despair - every writer knows.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about despair, writers

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Quote by Albert Camus about art

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Quote by Jane Austen about man, people

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Quote by Orson Scott about education, writers, career, knowledge

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers, experience, hope, contentment, things, life