Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.