I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

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

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!