Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.