Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

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.

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

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

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.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.