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

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Our love is our burden.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

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