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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.