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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

You become a great writer by writing.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.