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I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.