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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

To write is a humiliation.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.