When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.