I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
Although I think I'm relatively happy as a person, I think there's something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I'd say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that's particularly original, other than that we're going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?