Making intimate, heartfelt comics that convey one’s concerns and reveal different ways of viewing the world are part of the fabric woven by art, by literature.
It’s that weird ghost of electricity in the faces of the people you love.
What does ten years of violence do to the psyche of a nation?
The Source Family was a high-risk situation, like any radical group or radical experiment. It was never a promise that they were going on a safe journey.
How has feminism impacted historical fiction?
All our lives will end one day, maybe sooner than we’d like, and yet we abide by laws, written and unwritten.
I have to be in this frame of mind where I’m feeling pity for myself, and feeling pity for the world. Once I’ve attained the summit of this, then I have to sit down and write.
Hollywood invariably has trouble with unadorned representations of the poor and the disadvantaged whose life stories may not produce positive resolutions in the form of glamor, adventure, triumphant individualism, and social mobility.
We’re often mistaken — and the more grandiose the ambition, the more revealing our mistakes may be.
My thoughts tend to run toward worst-case scenarios and I’m quick to misread social cues or assume the worst, and because it’s the way I process data, I have to assume it’s going to keep showing up in my writing.