I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. W...
Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their own.
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no pri...
