I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.