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I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.