Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

One is but a shade of the other.

If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.