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I need to write to be happy.

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

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