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I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.