When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.
Kelly LinkRemember, when you donโt know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. Itโs like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.
Kelly LinkI don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.
Kelly LinkYou say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.
Kelly Link