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I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.