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I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

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.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.