Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

I always try to write about believable people.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.