The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.