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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.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

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

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.