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Experience is the extract of suffering.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.