Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.