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I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I write - and then I write some more.