Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Fairly early on, I became an observer of people more than a group participant. And I drew. I probably spent half of my childhood with pencils and Crayolas in my hand.
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences-and I stray pretty far from mine-I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
I didn't know any schizophrenics. The most valuable information I got was from people with the disease and their family members.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
Reading a novel is a highly personal experience, and I think different readers will take different things from it.
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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