When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

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

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

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