I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.