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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I'm not a great writer.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

You become a great writer by writing.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.