Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...