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I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.

I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.