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The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

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

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

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.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.