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I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

It's always the story that interests me.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.