Process

“I think for me SOLITUDE is really ESSENTIAL to writing.”

“The way that I approach story first is what is it that I want to SAY, not what is the story that I want to TELL.”

“The BEAUTY of being a baseball writer is that there’s no TYPICAL work day.”

"It’s RITUALIZED not because I’m a devoted writer. It’s because I’m LAZY."

"When I'm drawing my comic, I can give as much information as I WANT. That directorial CONTROL is really, it can be a little bit INTOXICATING."

"I think that REGARDLESS of a writer’s background, the writer’s perspective is ANCHORED in who they are as a person and the sum of their experiences."

"The TOUGH part is that a situation is not a story, and so that’s the hardest part of writing for me, is to come up with a DIRECTION for that character to go from the situation that they’re in."

"There might be a SPARK between some bit of language and some question I’d stored away for years, and then that, they seem to INTUITUVELY belong together, and I’ll see what that does on the page"

"It’s why my stories are very PERSONAL and dear to me because it’s always like I’m whispering a SECRET to my ABUELA."

"You have to FIGHT for your writing time."

"My philosophy is you always START from the UNKNOWN and when you write you get to know a little bit better, just getting CLOSER, but never there."

"Like what does it look like to imagine a FUTURE with Latinx people that is not just DEATH, that is not just DEPORTATION, that not just ASSIMILATION, right?"