Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
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I think writers are very anxious.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.
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.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.