Writers are not meant for action.
I do enjoy working with writers.
All writers have the idea that they are famous.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
All my big heroes are literary, writers.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader
I'm not much of a joke writer.
I don't think of myself as a writer.
Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.
Erin Gruwell: An F? What,are ya trippin'?
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
My essential identity is that of a writer.
Writer. Another word for poor.
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of ...
The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...
I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the world for me that compares to being lost in a really good novel. That said, reading is an absolute must if you want to write. It is a tr...
Henry Miller, Genet, Sade, Bataille are really important writers for me and I love them, but I feel often they don’t love me, you know? I feel I always have to wrap my head around the way the girl is treated in the works, and the way the woman writ...
Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many m...
We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It’s why you sti...
