We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

I just like doing it, I like writing.