Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
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.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.