My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
Kirby WrightIt is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.
Kirby WrightI learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.
Kirby WrightAnyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.
Kirby Wright