I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show off a lot when I was younger. Now I just want people to enjoy the story. If it were possible to publish anonymously, that would be awesome.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.