If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?