The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
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