Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.