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I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I write about living, not dying.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

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.