Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.