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It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.