Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.