I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
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