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In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

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.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

I write a lot about myself.

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.

It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.