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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.