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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

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.

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.