The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

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