The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.