You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
From Anne Rice
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
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