To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
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Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
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