But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do enjoy working with writers.
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.