A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
From Irwin Shaw
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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