The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

I'm very comfortable writing.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.