It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so tha...
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.
There is no higher authority.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Whether you're a writer of stories or a writer of patents, you're an inventor.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requir...
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling re...
You are a writer. You just need to write.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
