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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.