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Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

I've always been a writer.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.