Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Our love is our burden.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.