You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
I am always writing to myself.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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