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Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in... →
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own... →
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
I haven't been part of the criminal world.
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.