How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.
I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god. . . The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.
Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.