I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
Everyone has a private self and a public self.
All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.