I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

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 liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

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

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

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.