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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.