All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.