The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
What writing does is to reveal.
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.