Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
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.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I don't want my writing to be recognized.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.