That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.