I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.