There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.