My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.
With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.