I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

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.

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

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.

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

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