An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.
You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
