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Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.