Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed where, somewhere at the event, I would find a book and sit under a table where nobody could get me and go back into book land.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.