Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.
The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.