I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.