The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.