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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

I am always writing to myself.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.