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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

Writers are so important.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.