You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
To write, you need to find what you love.
You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.
Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
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