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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.

For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.