There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a pos...
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
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.
