Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
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.