Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.