
As a writer, my imagination is how I earn my living. It’s what drove me, at 25, to Hollywood – clutching a screenplay and a well-worn copy of John Irving’s “The World According to Garp.” Irving is the reason I wanted to write in the first place, and I’ve loved his books ever since I first discovered “Garp” when I was young. It still amazes me that he wrote such an incredible novel at just 36 – I felt like I was barely growing up at that age! I’m still completely fascinated by how he writes, and when I arrived in Los Angeles, all I wanted was to craft a single sentence as powerful as anything in “Garp,” and maybe, just maybe, make something of my career.