I Usually Try Not To Think About

People Don't Have These Tidy Little Redemption Arcs In Reality The Way They Do In Movies.

To Aspiring Writers, I Would Tell Them That We Live In A Wonderful Time Where You're Able To Make Your Work Visible, Easily. If You Think About It, Even Ten Years Ago Or Twenty Years Ago, There Was A Middle Man, There Was A Publisher, There Were Studios, There Was This World Of Rejection Letters. Now, We're In A Place Where We Have The Technology And The Ability To Go Shoot Our Own Movies Or To Put Stuff On Youtube Or A Blog, If You're A Writer, Or Self-publish.

I Absolutely Relate To Being Alone In Squalor, Trying To Come Up With Something Adequate. I Relate To That, And I've Been Known To Crawl Out Of Bed And Drink Out Of A 2-liter Bottle Of Diet Coke.

I'm A Pessimist By Nature. I Don't Think Things Are Ever Going To Work Out, I'm Not Particularly Ambitious.

As A Kid, I Spent Every Summer Bent Over A Stack Of Books, Obsessively Writing Detailed Reports On Each One.