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Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

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.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

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.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.