I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.
A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.
I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
