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I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.