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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 very unhappy when I'm not writing.

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

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

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

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.