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I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.