We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

I write because I love doing it.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

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.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.