In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.
One tends to write beyond what's needed.
To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.