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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.