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My life is so full of sacrifices.

If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.