When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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