Professional Writing Quotes

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

  John Dos Passos (1988). "John Dos Passos: la gran prosa de no ficción".

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• Un escritor profesional es un aficionado que no ha renunciado.

  Richard Bach

  Perseverancia, Escritura, Edición

  Richard Bach (2012). "Un don de alas", p.9, Dell.

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• Escribir no es nada. Todo lo que haces es sentarte frente a una máquina de escribir y sangrar.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Escritura, Bad Ass, Máquinas de escribir

  "Exclusiva: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" por James Joiner, www.esquire.com. 24 de octubre de 2013.

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• La única razón para ser escritor profesional es que no puedes evitarlo.

  Leo Rosten

  Escritura, Escritores de relatos, Ayuda

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• Sustituye "maldita sea" cada vez que te sientas inclinado a escribir "muy"; tu editor lo borrará y la redacción quedará como debe.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiración, Divertido, Escritura

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• The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Typewriters, Ribbons

  Chips off the old Benchley (1949) "Learn to Write"

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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

  Writing, Editing, People

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• Me encantaba escribir. De niña escribía todo el tiempo. Me encantaba escribir hasta el momento en que conseguí mi primer trabajo profesional de escritor. Resulta que no es que odie escribir. Odio, simplemente, trabajar.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Empleo, niños, odio

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• My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

  Curtis Hanson

  Writing, Credit, Roger

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Paradox

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• I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

  Rod Serling

  Escribir, Pensar, Años

  Fuente: www.rodserling.com

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• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Writing, Dramatic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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