The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.