There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out.
I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.
Character and Plot...Character and Plot Some writers have it and some do not This I'll tell you Brother You can't have one without the other
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring in ideas, and they try to make them happen for us.
