Unorthodox Writing Quotes

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I am not a consecutive writer.

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

A book, small in size, but immense in its perversity

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.