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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

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

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.