It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.