The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.