I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
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.
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.