All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet
Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.
Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
