“Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I thi...” — Dan Chaon Quote

“Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.”

“I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.”

“You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.”

“I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.”

“I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.”