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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.