Writer Quotes

You've got human beings, underwriters, looking at that credit report, and not all of them have the same guidelines. - John Waskin

You're typically going to have an IT person, a Web marketing person, a copywriter, and a business owner. If you don't sit those people down together in a conference call or the same room, and have them hash out a solution together, then it's a bad way to do project management. - Jamie Low

You're typecast as a mid-list author even before you start. It used to be that a writer would get five or six books before you were pulled and given up on. They gave you a chance to build an audience. Now, if the first book doesn't build an audience, you're gone. - Whitley Strieber

You're starting to think of me as a writer of choral works, right? That's all right. I like that. - Joe Negri

You're sort of shaped by your environment in a way. I don't know if it affects every songwriter in the same way, but there must be something to it. If you're living in a busy city environment, you're going to write differently than if you're sitting in a Thoreau cabin by a lake somewhere. - Jay Farrar

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. - Norman Lear

You're fools to try to be songwriters! - Barry Mann

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. - Cassandra Clare

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. - Iris Chang