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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

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

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.