There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.