Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.