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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.

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

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.