Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Politicians are better liars than writers.
I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.