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Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.