I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
I don't know why I write what I write.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.