It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.