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Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.