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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

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

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.