When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.