I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.