Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
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.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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