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I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.'

— Daniel Woodrell

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✓Similar Perspectives

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

— Lynn Flewelling

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.

— Colson Whitehead

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

— Anne Fadiman

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

— Karen Bender

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

— Andrew Pyper

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there.

— Ronald Frame

I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.

— John Gregory Dunne

✗Opposing Perspectives

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

— A. E. van Vogt