As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
