Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
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 like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.