To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.