I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
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