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I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

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

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.