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If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

Writing is a great love of mine.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.