
“I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.”
Writers on Writing interview (1986)
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.”
Writers on Writing interview (1986)
Source: Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
"Dawn Powell: The American Writer" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
Quoted by Bennett Cerf in Shake Well Before Using http://books.google.com/books?id=gVZAAAAAIAAJ&q=%22What+no+wife+of+a+writer+can+ever+understand+no+matter+if+she+lives+with+him+for+twenty+years+is+that+a+writer+is+working+when+he%27s+staring+out+the+window%22&pg=PA118#v=onepage (1948)
On not feeling that a place is truly home in “Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/09/ariel-dorfman-not-to-belong-anywhere-to-be-displaced-is-not-a-bad-thing-for-a-writer in The Guardian (2018 May 9)