Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

I guess some stories do not need telling.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.