I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
I write about living, not dying.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.