The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

I write in a rush of memory.

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.