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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

An outsider can see some things much better.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

We don't know where print is going.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.