All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
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