I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.
Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.
I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.
It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.