World Book Night USA

"Just seems to take me a long time sitting with my characters before I can write a single word, good or bad, about them. I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters. And as any elder can tell you—you can make a friend in a minute, but family requires a different order of commitment. Seems you got to put your whole life into it for it really to work. And that seems to be the scale I operate on as an artist. My friends, of course, just laugh at my overwrought bullshit. They keep it simple: you just slow."