Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.