My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
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.
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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