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

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

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

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.