The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

I'm not an urban person.