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I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.