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I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.