I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

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.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

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