I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
I don't know why I write what I write.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.