What Do Writers Want? Everything.

Roxane Gay recently pointed out in Salon that all our discussions about whether women writers like best selling Jennifer Weiner don't get enough press coverage miss a major point.

Writers are easily dissatisfied, no matter what they've achieved. As Gay puts it so beautifully: "What most writers have in common is desire. We want and want and want and want."

I learned this early in my publishing career when an author I was getting to know told me about a contemporary writer whose first novel ...