Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

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

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

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

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.