I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

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