Max Apple

I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

I've always been writing.

I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.