The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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