I love writing about people on the road.

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

I love writing about people on the road.

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.