I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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