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Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.