The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A writer's work is to witness things.
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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