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Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.