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Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

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I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.

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I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

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I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

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Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.

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I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

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Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

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After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

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The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

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I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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