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

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

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

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.