A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know ...
Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones
We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.
Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only can tell, because there will always be better writers...
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ...
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
My writing is how I maintain.
Writing is the act of discovery.
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.
It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
