My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot...
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I could...
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that'...
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the le...
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it...
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've ever read of his I've really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and...
Trust the tale, not the teller.
A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.
A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided tha...
