A Writer's Life: How do Successful Writers Really Live

When people are excited and interested, and getting crazy in their head, and making nonsense questions

when a writer says that he is suffering from writer’s block or procrastination

the more time I spend in one book, the less I spend in creating the next

people like books with

People are bored with their life, so they have no interest in the truth.

say what they think

those 1%, but I do know I’m one of them, so that is enough not to pay too much attention on what the majority says about what I should be doing or why

make constant efforts to meet new people

talk openly without assuming I'm crazy

don't think I want something from them

If you spend too much time alone

Writing is depressive and very lonely.

when I write what I know, people praise, respect me, and pay me money. When I talk the same things, or much less than that, people think I'm insane, laugh and I never see them again.

Victor Hugo said, "An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise".

So, if I'm young and making a living as a writer, in their eyes, I’m either schizophrenic or working for a criminal organization and pretending to be a writer.

Hard work sounds bullshit to 99%. Following the previous insight, most people don't believe in hard work. So they never assume that success requires work.