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The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.