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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
