Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.