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Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer. -- Bryan Cogman
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me. -- Margaret Haddix
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing. -- Lisa Edelstein
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. -- Buchi Emecheta
It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books. -- Phil Klay
Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better. -- David Rakoff
Being a bad writer a thousand times first. -- Gail Simone
Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad. -- Reif Larsen
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer

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