In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

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 wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

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.

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.