He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.
Joe Jones
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
And in that moment, Dan was reminded once again why he wanted to write in the first place: to impress women.
Jeremy Goodwin
If writing is so solitary, why are there so many people to thank? Shopgirl
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. NY Times 13 Jul 1958
I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre. Evening Standard (London, June 8, 1989).
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
It's a few years since I've written a novel and I think we're moving from a position where I have a publisher hav[ing] a contract with me to having a contract on me. GamesMania Interview
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. Probably from her journals