There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.