Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquir...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a ro...

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to c...

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the ne...

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer w...

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I'v...

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad archi...

A writer should write with his eyes and a pain...

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty...

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live,...

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt th...