I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
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