Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.