1.
The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.
Brent Runyon
2.
Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.
Brent Runyon
3.
So what does that make you think about God?
I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
Brent Runyon
4.
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
Brent Runyon
5.
Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.
Brent Runyon
6.
I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.
Brent Runyon
7.
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
Brent Runyon
8.
I write in a rush of memory.
Brent Runyon