Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

If no one knows you, then you are no one.