Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?
PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!
The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford.
Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.
To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth.
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.