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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.