‘Every day’ is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.
Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.
It never occurred to me to write anything that didn’t include gay characters in it.
Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it’s an accepting place. It’s accepting of eccentricity, it’s accepting of excess, it’s accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, – it’s ironic – but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven’t become too self-conscious of the goal.
I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn’t want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.