Good writers are of necessity rare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
Writers are so important.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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