Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?
There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.