I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.
Dan ChaonThe kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what I felt I was like when I was younger.
Dan ChaonPlot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
Dan Chaon