I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.