In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.