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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.