Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.