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I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.

As a writer, I have to show complexities. Through my writings, I hope to bring out people in different situations and not just one-dimensional beings.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.