I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.