There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
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'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.
Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.