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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

A writer's work is to witness things.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.