Brent Runyon Quotes

Brent Runyon — Writer born on December 30, 1977,

Brent Runyon is a contemporary writer for young adults. He has written three books. The first is a memoir, The Burn Journals; the other two are novels, Maybe, and Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers. The Burn Journals has been nominated for a Georgia Peach Award for Young Readers... (wikipedia)

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.

I write in a rush of memory.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

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.

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 Quotes

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