There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

I feel that I'm solid at description.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.