If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.