In My Experience, Ghosts Are

The Urge To Create A Fictional Narrative Is A Mysterious One, And When An Idea Comes, The Writer's Sense Of What A Story Wants To Be Is Only Vaguely Visible Through The Penumbra Of Inspiration.

Like Putting A Name To My Problems Would Solve Anything

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

A Good Story Feels Both Surprising And Inevitable, Fresh And Familiar.

I Know It Really Sounds Cheesy, But I Did Feel A Duty To Try To Tell The Stories Of People Who Couldn't Speak For Themselves.