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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

Anne McCaffrey

Media

Publishing

Writers

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

Writers

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

W. Somerset Maugham

Trouble

Writers

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

Margaret Mahy

Children

Writers

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Education

Writers

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.