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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.