There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.