Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.