For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.
A writer is what I am.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.