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Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.