The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.