I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.