The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Was it rampant? Absolutely not,

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.