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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

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 think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

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.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.