Good Stories Are Driven By

Probably Careful Plotting Reflects My Personality. I Am Meticulous By Nature. I Can't Imagine Speed-writing Anything That Happens To Pop Into My Head.

I Love Sports, As All Bostonians Seem To. I Love Books And Movies, As All Writers Seem To.

But Sometimes You Can't Figure Everything Out Because You Can't Ever Really Understand Other People. You Can't Understand Why They Do What They Do. You Just Have To Accept A Little Mystery, Ben. People Are Mysterious, The World Is Mysterious. You Can't Know Everything. You're Not Supposed To. This Isn't A History Book. It's Just The World. It's A Messy Place.

I Can't Say That I Ever Actually Decided To Become A Writer. It Kind Of Snuck Up On Me.

You Can Write A Great Book And Be Ignored. Literary History Is Full Of Classics That Were Under-appreciated In Their Own Time.