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If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I always felt an outsider.