The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.