I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.
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.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
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 never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.