For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.