All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.