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There comes a point in every book where one realizes one is not writing the damn book. The damn book is taking shape under one's fingers, according to its own will and desires. You might as well just be a tube the words are coming through. Although the story needs the tube to contain it–and to work to put it on the page–it certainly doesn't, well, obey.

I think this frightens a lot of people who want to write. The sense that they might not be in control, or that the story might be coming...