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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

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.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.