I love that — the thing that is so intense and painful that you have to live a life glancing sidelong at it, and are surprised when you are, once again, somehow, in the midst of it, wondering how it is that you led yourself there.
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.