A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.