It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.