On Writing

“The way I see writing is it’s a long process of terror punctuated by periods of intense, unsurpassed pleasure. Because you’ve dealt with two months of terror before that, you have that purple patch for a week, maybe two weeks, when you know what’s going on, you know what you’re achieving, and words come easily. Then you go back to terror. And I’m not talking about terror in the sense of ‘I don’t know how to plot this chapter,’ but the terror of, ‘Why am I even writing, what a ridiculous thing to do.’”

— Tash Aw

Via AdviceToWriters

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