Writing Network Quotes

When you're a writer in Hollywood, you don't get to work with other writers. You barely get to meet other writers. We're interchangeable, disposable pieces that never really get to collaborate.

With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don't have to do that; you don't have to be alone in the room anymore.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

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.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.