Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
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All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
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.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
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