Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.