My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.