What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.