If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.