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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.