Writers talking is mostly overrated, I think.

I mean, if a writer had the personality, skill set, and disposition, to be an incredible public speaker – well – they would have probably been a public speaker.

But in my experience, writers are a skittish lot.

We want to be social, but only from the confines of our living rooms and libraries.

It seems to obvious point out: But a writer who has something to say should be writing.

Still, Anne Lamott nailed it in this video.

Though I did, as I’ll relate, serve for two years as president of the PEN American Center, I’ve never quite shaken off my feeling that writers in their public-protest mode seem a little silly. If they are good writers, and many were, their pages, their sentences and paragraphs, have a potency that the protests never reach. Nor are they necessarily good describers of the follies they are attempting to alleviate or prevent. Time after time, at such gatherings, I found myself wishing I was just at home, reading the very people who were declaiming away right in front of me.

-Stephen King, On Writing