I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.
I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.
In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.