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.
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.
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.'
I always want to do work that feels honest and that's harder to find than you imagine.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
