They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.