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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.