I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

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

I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.