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However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.