There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.