I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
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