I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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