You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

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.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

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.

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

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.