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It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.