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.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

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

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.

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.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.