You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."