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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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