Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.