However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.
I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.