Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.