I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.
Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.