Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
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