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.

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Our love is our burden.

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.

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