I love the elasticity of words and how you can put them together to create things. It’s like a big LEGO set.
I am mean to them, aren’t I?
But my inner critic is the one who writes in the first place.
Loving art was a huge part of why I became a socialist. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and I spent a lot of my youth really arguing for the arts.
There’s theoretical forgiveness, and then there’s personal forgiveness.
This connects to an anxiety I’ve had since childhood about wanting to record everything that’s ever happened, which is perhaps simply a fear of my own mortality, as well as the mortality of everything in this beautiful world.
Faith is inherent to surrender.
Potatoes will devastate. Famously.
Babies are definitely enemies of romcom!
“I would like someone to ask me whether Red Dead Redemption 2 has any influence on the creation of this book.”