What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
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I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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