The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
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.
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.