I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
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The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.