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Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

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.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

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.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.