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Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.