I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.