Technical Writer Quotes

#1. I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Kevin J. Anderson

#2. A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

Gary Lutz

#3. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?

Anais Nin

#4. He had stylized himself
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

Graham Greene

#5. Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

James Wolcott

#6. We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Christopher Lee

#7. The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.

Kyle Muntz

#8. Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

Donna Tartt

#9. The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

#11. But words were no longer enough, smashing things was no more help. He wanted to run, he wanted to keep running and never look back ...

J.K. Rowling

#12. When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

Nicolas Roeg

#13. That is the lesson I have learned about our justice system and their war on insider trading. It doesn't matter what you did but what you do when they ask for your cooperation.

James Fleishman

#14. They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph - not because there's money in it, necessarily, but because it takes technical skill and some measure of creative thinking to pull off.

Anonymous

#15. Mom: 'You could have neon green hair, and it wouldn't take away how beautiful you are,' she said
Clara: 'You're my mother. You are legally required to say that'.

Cynthia Hand

#16. Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Art Garfunkel

#17. I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Jane Siberry

#18. Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#19. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.

Neal A. Maxwell