The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

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

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.