Writing Group Quotes

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.

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

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.