I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
“I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.”
“I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.”