Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.
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.
I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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