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I don't know why I write what I write.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

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

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.