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I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

I'm not a great writer.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.