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I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

A writer is what I am.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

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.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.