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My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.

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.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

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

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.