Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
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.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.