People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.