You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.