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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

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

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

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

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.

For me, writing is just processing.