Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
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.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
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