To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
I write what I see; I paint what I am.