Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

I'm not in the service business.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.