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As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.