We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.
Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only can tell, because there will always be better writers...
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ...
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
My writing is how I maintain.
Writing is the act of discovery.
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.
The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
