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I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.