You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

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