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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.