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.
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
