A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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.
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.
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.