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

I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.

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.

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.

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