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I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.