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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.

I always write about what interests me.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.