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You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.