You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.