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Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

For me, writing is just processing.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.