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One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I write based on how I feel.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.