Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.
Writers are so important.
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