When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or scene to feel necessary and organic. I approach the writing of others in much the same way while always working to preserve the writer's voice. To allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I tell myself no one is going to read my work. There's no way I could put myself out there otherwise.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

I am mortified by my music choices.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative space.