Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.
The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.
For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
