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.
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.
