All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.
It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.