Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
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.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.