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I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.
Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?'
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
