When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.
I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.