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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.