There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.
A writer is what I am.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.