Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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