It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
I'm a writer first and a woman after.
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.