Goodreads asked Heather Fowler:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Heather Fowler Do what you love--do it whether you "succeed" or not. Keep doing it. Only compete with your own personal best. Life is not fair. The publishing world is not fair. So what? You might be ahead of your time. You might be famous posthumously--but not if you give up and fail to create your own important work because you are ridiculously assessing its worth on the basis of what happens with other people's work. What matters is that you follow your own internal compass for the body of scholarship/poems/plays/stories you want to create--not whether anything you make wins awards or prizes. Create. Do it again. And let nothing stop you. You want to be a writer? So, write. Write. Write. No excuses.

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