I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time.
The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.
There's a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.
I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?
I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
I always want to do work that feels honest and that's harder to find than you imagine.
Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
