I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

You have to want something or you're finished.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.