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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.