You might want to be able to close a chapter of your life, but I don't believe that you ever do completely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
My life is pretty much an open book.
As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.
Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.
My career is an open book, but my life is not.
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.