The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:
- The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi.
- The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW), representing TV and film writers in Hollywood and southern California.
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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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