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There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.