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I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.