Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

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

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

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

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

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.