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It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.