The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
A writer is what I am.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.