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.

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.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

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.

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.

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.