I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.