Writer

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.