Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started writing to save my life.
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Writing gave me the world.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.