I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.