I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.