The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
A writer needs a life of introspection.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.