Sometimes, things are just exercises.

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.