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My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

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.