Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.