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.

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.

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.

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

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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

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