Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.