In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Wolf! Right here and now!

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.