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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.

I feel a burden if I don't write.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.