Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
You can't write if you don't read.
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
Writers are not meant for action.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.