It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.
I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.