What drives you to write?

What drives you to write?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What drives you to write?; When did you first know you were a writer?; What do you love most about writing? and more...

Now what drives me to write, I think, is other books that I read consistently throughout my writing career and also the knowledge that the last book I wrote was not a perfect one so I want to rectify that with each book that I write, and knowing at the same time that every book will fail to some extent to achieve its goal. It's a quest to write, it's a quest to understand life I suppose, as we live it. And that's a mystery that connects writers with scientists, with all sorts of researchers.