Brent Runyon

I write in a rush of memory.

— Brent Runyon

“I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that’s what the…

— Brent Runyon

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls…

— Brent Runyon

Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down…

— Brent Runyon

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

— Brent Runyon

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I…

— Brent Runyon

“Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not…

— Brent Runyon

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote…

— Brent Runyon

“You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my…

— Brent Runyon

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

— Brent Runyon

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of…

— Brent Runyon

“I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa,…

— Brent Runyon

“He says everything like it happened to someone else.”

— Brent Runyon