I was going to be a memory when I grew up..

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are..

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this….

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do..

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something..

Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important….

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, the….

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always e….

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it..

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth ….

I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good n….

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don'….

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think..

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and th….

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time..

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing..

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other..

I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. ….

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it..

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write ….

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them..