I Think The Most Famous Person I've

For Me To Do A Story, Something Has To Happen To Someone. It's A Story In The Way You Learn What A Story Is In Third Grade, Where There Is A Person And Things Happen To Them And Then Something Big Happens And They Realize Something New.

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.

Just When Did I Get To The Point When Staying At A Hotel Wasn't Fun?

It's Not A Terribly Original Thing To Say, But I Love Raymond Carver. For One Thing, He's Fun To Read Out Loud.

I Didnt Have Any Particular Talent For Fiction. I Took A Class In College.