I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.
As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.