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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.