I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
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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 most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
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