Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
Writing is a lonely profession.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.