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Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

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It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So...more

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I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that wri...more

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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

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I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British wr...more

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He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

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The words come at my call but who calls whom?

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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

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There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go....more