I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place, but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.