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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.

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

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.