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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

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.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.