Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.
Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.
It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.
It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.