I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.
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