The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

I actually do like traveling.

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.