I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

Usually my ideas are small.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

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.