What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
To be awake is to be alive.
I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
A writer is what I am.
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
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