Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.
I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.