In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
How can you stop writing?
I can't envisage stopping writing.
I don't control my writing - it controls me.
Once I start writing, I can't stop.