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I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.