I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.