Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.
The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.
I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.