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Hi, I'm Allen, new member, new writer. My day job is designing rocket engines but my aspiration is writing fiction, which is a heck of a lot more challenging. I look forward to being a member of the Litopia community. :)

Hi Pamela, It's my pleasure to notify you that your submission has moved forward to the second round of jury deliberations for the SLF's Older Writers Grants. We hope to have a final decision for you soon, but we are currently working through a higher than usual number of applications. Please...

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. Janet Frame

As a writer you should not judge. You should understand. Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuon Ishiguro

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive. Janet Malcolm

“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one – or both. Usually both.” Susan Sontag

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Czeslaw Milosz

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” Samuel Johnson

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil. Nick Cave

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” Catherine Drinker Bowen

Once you’re a writer, you’re a writer, and that’s what you do, and you can’t escape from it. It is who you become and who you are. To tell you the truth, I feel guilty all the time because I feel like I’m not writing enough or not working enough. Alice Hoffman

"Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity." Edmund Bergler

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.” Rod Serling

'To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied...

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing. John McPhee

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann

“Being a writer is an act of perpetual self-authorization. Who’s going to give you the authority to feel that what you notice is important? It will have to be you.” Verlyn Klinkenborg

A writer should not think he is bad or finished (if a book fails to find a market)...Every failure teaches something. You should have the feeling, as every experienced writer has, that there are more ideas where that one came from, more strength where the first strength came from, and that you...