I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.