My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.