Please make me either relatable or terrible.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

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

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.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.