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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.