There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
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