I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"