Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.