If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

We [me and husband ] had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel [Gentlemen of the Road] the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.

Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.