It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.