There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
Anne RiceTo be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
Anne RiceWe have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.
Anne RiceFirst-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice