If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
I write about living, not dying.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
I don't like writing with real people in mind.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
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