I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

- Joshua Mohr

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

- Joshua Mohr

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

- Joshua Mohr

Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart year…

- Joshua Mohr

I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you do…

- Joshua Mohr

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing…

- Joshua Mohr

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

- Joshua Mohr

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in…

- Joshua Mohr

It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though …

- Joshua Mohr