The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.