I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.
You just write about things that happen.