It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.