Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.