Latest Joe Meno Quotes from Interviews

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• I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if anyone is watching me while I'm writing. I want to apologize to people who have to read those sex scenes, but I feel like it's part of the characters life, it's important.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Writing, Character

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Book, Perspective

  Source: www.mtv.com

• [Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Expectations, Awkward

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.

  Joe Meno

  Country, Thinking Of You, Distance

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.

  Joe Meno

  Book, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.mtv.com

• In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.

  Joe Meno

  Reading, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.mtv.com