a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.