The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.
They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.
Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, a...
I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a wri...
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.
You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we...