I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

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