Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm, I'm not interested.

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

Sex is a good starting point for everything.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.