...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in this world. But they can't come indoors, they can't close the curtains, they can't, like, lock themselves away from the world and say nothing.