If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.