The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
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I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
I write about the things I feel strongly about.
As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.
Most things I go through I have to write about.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
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.
Writing is inherently scary.
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