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There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.