What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.