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Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

I write about my life.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

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.