My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
I've always loved writing.
I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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