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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.