I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.

It was very humiliating because I felt like people thought that I had actually broken the law.

Then the lady told me, we know, but we still have to keep your license.

I've never lived in Columbia. Never lived anywhere except Anderson County.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.