I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.