A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized information about them.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
