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I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

How can you stop writing?

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.