Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.