Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
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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.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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.