Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.
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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
Writing is a lonely business.
The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
Novel writing wrecks homes.