I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

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.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

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.

I'm very comfortable writing.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.