“It’s interesting, I had a friend read some of the early drafts, and I’m thinking, this is a war story. I mean, It’s World War II, it’s a war story. They called up, they were almost in tears, and they said, it was the most beautiful love story...
“I’ve always been somebody who believes that if something is calling to you creatively and it feels scary and or challenging, chances are that’s what you should be doing. So in those moments when I was daunted by where the story was going, I would...
“Finish what you start. You can’t fix something that’s not done. So if you start writing a book, if you start writing a song, if you start writing a script, a play, that’s awesome. It’s gonna be terrible at first, so don’t worry...
“Something that really in retrospect gave me a breakthrough was writing for an anthology. This publisher said, well, do you have a book? And I’m like, yeah, yeah, I have a book. So they said, we’d like to see it. The anthologies can really sort of...
“Michael Eisner, who is my mentor said, “If you want to have a happy life, be a mentor and have a mentor.” And I would always find kids younger than me or older than me and try to help them along. It’s a virtuous circle, which is an old Greek...
