Fiction is always really a labor.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

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

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.